Via JD, some thoughts on money: Barter does not work for two reasons. The first is that natural goods mature in due season. This means that for most of the year, the farmer has nothing to trade with the hunter save his promise to pay when the crop comes in. The second is that even [...]
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This says a lot. For a start, how is she in any position of influence? Another one of that compliant demographic running rampant in the society and in thrall to cynical agenda pushers above. Secondly, as someone who tutored in public speaking, the first thing I noticed about her, even before the mouth opened, was [...]
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Cheers, Sackers – nicely put by a would-be-radical: This was the beginning of the end of my belief in The Guardian. Ever afterwards, I was wary of the innate bigotry of some of its journalists. Having already developed a healthy disbelief in Murdoch’s Times, I suppose one can trace the genealogy of my current opinions [...]
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Many bloggers/readers have been scathing about how Google seems to have lost the plot of late. I’ve read and heard what these bloggers/readers have been saying but haven’t had any personal issues since 2008 when a nutter decided to flag my Blogger site for inappropriate content and Blogger’s reaction was to shut it down immediately.
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If anyone would know what his lot have planned, G. Soros would. Gleefully, he laid it out some time back: “At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” Soros said. As he sees it, the world faces one of the most dangerous periods of modern history—a period of “evil,” writes the Beasts’ John [...]
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You need only read this: In 1993, the Club published The First Global Revolution.[5] According to this book, divided nations require common enemies to unite them, “either a real one or else one invented for the purpose.”[6] Because of the sudden absence of traditional enemies, “new enemies must be identified.”[6] “In searching for a new [...]
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With the UK cold snap just around the corner and the country about to be plunged into thick snowfalls, it’s wise to sort out your cleats. Unnar Þórisson reports from Iceland on the efficacy of these items. The Icelanders leave nothing to chance as she warns: “Ice is Slippery”: The news stations have sent out [...]
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Wonder what responses you’d get over here:
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Wondered why fish prices had shot up: Rising wealth in Asia and fishing subsidies are among factors driving overexploitation of the world’s fish resources, while fish habitat is being destroyed by pollution and climate change, U.N. marine experts said Tuesday. India’s caste system protected from the bottom up: Only dalits, whose caste impels them to [...]
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Going back to this elderly driver who didn’t stop and the Gwent police smashed his windows, with one jumping on the bonnet and smashing the windshield. We can’t know the details of the man himself but we can see the over-reaction. One commenter wrote: They were caught in the act of committing criminal damage and [...]
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Dear American friends Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, the trap you’re being drawn into? What so proudly you hailed is about to be lost at the twilight’s last gleaming. Surely with Mitt Romney being a slick machine politician, changing his mind on the run and fighting a dirty campaign in [...]
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There are two issues in this post and the first is the alarming rate at which political bloggers of our kind are either hanging up their boots or going into skeleton mode, just when there is more naughtiness than ever to expose and highlight. Knowledge spreads only through dissemination and so all you ladies and [...]
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Meet presidential candidate Vermin Supreme, the tyrant you should trust. He’s wearing a boot as a hat and he knows what’s best for you. If you let him control your life, you’ll enjoy mandatory daily toothbrushing, free ponies for all Americans, fantastic wordplay and zombie energy generation. H/T Boing Boing
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The story of Judith Clark was a tragedy in most people’s minds but the question is, of course – just which part, precisely, was the tragedy?” Tom Robbins noted, as Ron Radosh put it: Clark was part of an offspring of the Weather Underground that they called the Republic of New Afrika, a non-existent utopia [...]
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Suspending for a moment our deep suspicion of the ACLU and its socialist roots, the way this court was conducted is a travesty. There is a way in which evidence should be presented and all parties should be privy to what is being presented, particularly in an open hearing. That one side acted as they [...]
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Katarina Witt in hot water again. Stop: 1. apologizing; and 2. for reasons of PCism. She stunned viewers and fans alike when she called the professional skier a ‘big woman’ live on TV. But today, Dancing On Ice judge Katarina Witt apologised to Chemmy Alcott and said she meant her comment to be complimentary. Look, [...]
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Part of the ongoing series: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/18/heart_of_england_trust_to_digitise_millions_of_patient_records/ http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/18/uk_government_launches_hydrogen_motoring_task_force/
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Of note : The Bruges Group has ranked Members of Parliament according to their voting in the House of Commons since the 2010 General Election You can check how they voted on the key EU related issues that came before them and see who are the genuine Eurosceptics and who are Europhile. I’ve listed all [...]
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This sort of thing has been blogged on before. What we have is an activist who talks of his PhDs at the beginning and is given to “absolutely”s and predictions of the direst consequences, a gilding-the-lily style of journalism I can’t abide … and then there is the issue itself.
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Cobbling together some comments from the Telegraph article on the GOP on the other side of the pond: # Obama is used to being treated kindly while his minions engage in gutter tactics on his behalf to destroy his opponents. If Romney is the candidate, that pattern will continue. If Gingrich is the candidate, Obama [...]
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Here we go again. Someone puts up an idea, supports it with photos, auto-sceptics come in and ‘debunk’ him, anyone even discussing him is lumped in as being in support and mud sticks. Standard pattern. Question, if he’s a fraud, what’s his motivation?
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We know this but nice to see Cassandra put it this way: The history of the EU is the battle ground of two rival, mutually exclusive views on Europe: the Classic Liberal, rooted in individualism is about economic freedom in a voluntary, economic confederation of nation states. The socialist vision is the opposite, and will [...]
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Toyota cuts 350 jobs Toyota Australia announces the loss of 350 jobs at its Altona assembly line. [Australia] FSA Pressures NY Banks To Release Customer Funds [U.S.] JP Morgan At the Center of the MF Global Failure [U.S.] United Welfare States of America: In 2011 Nearly Half The Population Received Some Form Of Government Benefit [...]
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While Julia, Longrider, so many other authors and I bang on ad infinitum about the PCishness gripping society, newspaper headlines are employed to underscore and reinforce the ills: US overcomes the crisis as UK sinks into the swamp So we’re all meant to lapse into despondency. Rule N1 – never believe what they’re trying to [...]
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Yet more cracks have been found in the wings of the world’s biggest jets….but Airbus STILL claims they’re safe to fly
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Well worth the first five minutes and the last two when the EU attempts to defend itself: [H/T Chuckles]
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Thought this a most significant take on Adam Smith who, like all great ideas people who’ve influenced humanity, has been partly read and misread as has been people’s wont and their own prejudices: Smith saw economics as a branch of moral philosophy, and he saw capitalism as an ethical project whose success required political commitment to [...]
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Doom and gloom scenarios are useful in pointing to certain measures which might be wise but which scenario do you prepare for? Here are two: N1: As the US [read all of us] falls more deeply into entitlement debt, makes itself more vulnerable to uneducable and unassimilable illegal immigrants, makes war on its own private [...]
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# JD’s gone very quiet on the Scottish independence thing. # Check this out, courtesy Chuckles, about golden handshakes: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/11/new-study-shows-how-golden-parachutes-are-getting-bigger.html # Check this out, courtesy Rossa, about pensions: http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/eu-crisis-scandal-pension-liabilities-of-france-germany-are-half-of-eu-total/ # Unisex toilets thing at that school – PC out of control. Only trouble brewing there. I think they want there to be, that that’s the [...]
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