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searls extinction clock infogalactic isw jo nova junk science martini mandate not a lot of people know that rathergood com the interpreter the rathouse transport blog watts up with that older entries brexit predictions james waterton perth australia uk affairs so how is this going to pan out september 30th 2019 73 comments comments are closed so it has come to this james waterton perth australia civil liberty law regulation uk affairs police have launched an investigation after nigel farage vowed to take the knife to the pen pushers in whitehall after brexit let me get this straight a very high profile mainstream politician whose party could feasibly call on a larger base of mainstream support than any other at present attracts police attention as a result of what is clearly a rhetorical flourish wow september 28th 2019 28 comments comments are closed an unmissable podcast james waterton perth australia european union historical views uk affairs i am sure the samizdatistas and the samizdata commentariat alike are familiar with brendan o neill of spiked online as well as the brilliant and rather naughty david starkey starkey appears as a guest on o neill s most recent podcast put aside an hour and listen to their conversation you will be very glad you did it contains enough sqotds to last a year update the starkey interview may be in the process of going viral when i first stumbled across it it had clocked up a not insubstantial 25 000 views or so fast forward a few hours to now and it s almost at 40 000 excellent and may that number continue to rise sharply it deserves wide dissemination september 16th 2019 13 comments comments are closed an open ed letter to professor stephen l carter james waterton perth australia activism education academia personal views funny i read the sqotd from today and suddenly recalled a long forgotten e mail i sent in the wee hours of the morning six or so months ago the fact i had sent the e mail in the first place was unusual for me as i was moved to compose and send it to bloomberg columnist and yale law professor stephen l carter after reading the good professor s column and i cannot recall another occasion when i have got in touch with a journalist over something of theirs that i d read professor carter s article must have made a big impact on me it did here it is if you would like to have a read for yourself basically the professor is making the same perfectly valid point as brendan o neill regarding the hive mind mentality of a significant number of today s university students and chucking in a good intergenerational sneer for luck it is the latter that particularly shat me off when i read carter s column and prompted me to send the following to professor carter six months ago and late at night when i should have been working on something else dear professor carter i agree with your observations regarding the in abilities of the current crop of graduates but seeing as though you decided to target that generation so explicitly i thought maybe you might consider how the conditions that characterised your own generation s formative years came to be when recounting your day you wrote of an intellectual culture which celebrated a diversity of ideas where pure argument trumped all and a contrarian point of view was celebrated and even utilised to orient one s own perspectives this is the academic process at its very best and you were most fortunate to benefit from it unfortunately to channel your president you didn t build that you didn t build that and not only did you not build it you subsequently tore it down and you replaced it with the appparatus that has created the mindless chanting drones you decried in your bloomberg piece am i being unfair to target you well about as unfair as you were being to the current crop of graduates your generation unquestionably ripped apart that which you claim to revere and the class of 2014 is simply a manifestation of the values your generation cherishes so why are you training your guns on those kids when the true vandals are at still at large and are in fact running the show i don t mind catty articles i really don t they re often the most entertaining however i don t understand why you re thrashing a bunch of 20 year olds who are the product of an education system that your generation dominates and that system has equipped them so poorly to deal with rational discourse that you could probably expect little more than an effete whatever in response to your criticisms of them surely you know this attacking them smacks of cowardice to me you re aiming at the easiest targets if you really want to castigate a group of people for allowing academia to degenerate from what it was in your undergraduate years to what we see today go and seek out faculty and policymakers who look about your age yours faithfully james waterton i received no response not that this surprised me i agree with carter in that much of the student body and most of those who consider themselves activists are intellectually incurious ideologues primarily concerned with feeling that they are good people and indicating this to other good people but who moulded them the answer is implicit in carter s article when he reflects on how things were different back when he was at university it is a pity he lacked the even handedness to consider what changed between then and now and decided to instead chastise those responsible for the mindlessness of the modern student activist i m talking about the boomers of course and the muses that inspired them they really did screw up an awful lot and like professor carter in this instance i suspect they will never admit to what they have destroyed november 21st 2014 16 comments comments are closed on diminishing expectations or how an australian liberal could enjoy tales of american motorists escaping red light camera fines just a little too much james waterton perth australia civil liberty law regulation humour north american affairs as a liberty loving individualist it is easy to become pessimistic in the face of the ever growing authority of the state perhaps you were delighted to be a part of replacing your centre left governing party with your centre right opposition party but your lesser of two evils still turned out to be pretty damn evil or perhaps you were one of those libertarians who embarrassed themselves way back in 2007 by getting all excited over that compelling democratic candidate whose background screamed extreme belief in government action across society to the point that his beltway cv was visible from space yet was hopefully going to usher in a libertarian flavoured change somehow or perhaps you re just one of those goodly folk drinking in the glorious sight of the irrepressible green shoots of free association free enterprise and free will that sprout up in spontaneous order everywhere whilst simultaneously despairing of their vulnerability to the everpresent big farmer how to work a big pharma pun in here who really loves to harvest is his scythe getting sharper that s not a soithe this is a soithe even when faced with the depressing reality of the modern welfare state you can still find hope in minor but heartwarming tales of individual defiance and bureaucratic incompetence consider an article with a very boring title published by popular mechanics if i were the pm subeditor i think i would have gone with a food metaphor several small delicious canapes of little nutritional consequence which nevertheless make for highly enjoyable eating plus a few which give you the trots much snappier than 10 crazy red light camera cases right not feeling it well me neither i m not a fan of pieces with excessively long titles still there s plenty of grist for the anti authoritarian mill here anyway o the palpable glorious schadenfreude felt reading about how the city of san bernadino tried to wring extra red light camera tickets out of motorists by illegally shortening the yellow amber orange light this is an international blog after all duration by a second and got busted the blood red light revenue infusion henceforth became a revenue haemorrhage particularly when the company the city had hired to run the haemorrhage insisted on sticking to the terms of their contract most unsporting this contributed to the city s bankruptcy what a shame all right you may feel pity for the unfortunate residents of san bernadino well perhaps only for those who didn t vote for a democrat to create new problems as well as expand existing problems created by a previous democrat regarding the majority of those who didn t vote for a democrat what was i saying about the lesser of two evils above drat ah san bernadino sitting pretty in the california sun no rustbelt industrial decay there things aren t so bad its bankruptcy was not the biggest municipal default in american history detroit s was bigger it s not the poorest city of significant size in the usa detroit is poorer that must be of some comfort however the tale of san bernadino s red light blues isn t my favourite vignette from the article it is the following when tacoma wash motorist kevin schmadeka received a ticket accusing him of running a red light courtesy of the australian company redflex that installed the system he wanted to face his accuser and challenge the ticket just one problem he was told he d have to pay 670 in travel expenses to bring in a redflex employee from out of state when i was at the clerk s office inquiring about chain of custody information the employee at the counter mentioned that if i wanted to subpoena a camera company representative that there was a fee schmadeka told thenewspaper com the judge singled out the sixth amendment right to face one s accuser and dismissed the charges against schmadeka this has got it all a city authority falling afoul of their nasty little arrangement with one of those horrible private sector firms which exist solely to assist government authorities big and small to meddle in the lives of their subjects more effectively a plucky individual fighting city hall by asserting his natural born rights and winning a judge telling the state where it can stick its not just ridiculous but also unconstitutional bureaucratic imposts usa usa usa there s hope for us all yet incidentally i found this jolly article on the venerable instapundit trouble is that the venerable instapundit is liable to follow such an article up with a link to some story about how the nsa s been collecting your e mails toenail clippings and belly button lint or perhaps an update on the irs s campaigning efforts during the recent presidential campaign or maybe even the media s primary role in exorbitantly publicising and racialising the zimmerman trial and you as an australian small government type you start to feel a bit depressed again come on america we re relying on you to somehow tow us out of this illiberal bog our ruling class has quite contentedly driven us into it is really quite depressing to see that you are stuck in the same mud if not quite down to your wheel arches like us but after that flush of exasperation has passed your thoughts may drift back to sunny california and san bernadino and you realise well at least we re not detroit there will always be detroit july 27th 2013 11 comments comments are closed you can see why matt and trey picked on them james waterton perth australia how very odd korea you have probably read of the north koreans shamelessly ripping off a suite of disney characters in one of their infamous stage shows why all the pageantry ok it s north korea silly question but why now well it may have something to do with the young leader kim jong un being freed from dad s shackles and finally being able to get his leg over recently married not to fatty kim as the chinese call him new mother and former popstar hyon son wol but she s an interesting one is madame comrade hyon an accomplished musician in her own right she has a string of hits as long as your bayonette such as footsteps of soldiers i love pyongyang she is a discharged soldier and we are the troops of the party real toe tapping stuff however her star rose highest when she embraced her fans in the countryside with the 2005 chart topper excellent horse like lady something lost in translation or a manifestation of the severe shortage of tractors update by popular demand youtube clips provided no translations sorry and i am unable to verify whether the clips match the actual songs not being versed in korean further update call that pop music this is pop music and no i don t expect you to sit through that atrocious k pop just trying to make a point that being said it is worth noting how freaking massive k pop is throughout asia a market of 2 billion comparing the vigour of south korean k pop with its nothern counterpart as churned out by the likes of kim jong un s latest squeeze reminds me of this well known photo god bless capitalism july 11th 2012 12 comments comments are closed keynesians on austerity predictably wrong james waterton perth australia economics business globalization european affairs i have lost count of the number of opinion pieces written by finance commentators and journalists who complain that the austerity programmes of europe are doomed to fail because they cause perpetual economic contraction resulting in shrinking government revenues curtailing the ability to pay down debt which was why the austerity programmes were embarked upon in the first place and this will go hand in hand with a widespread precipitous and neverending decline in living standards which raises the spectre of social and or political collapse the alternative solution they generally propose comes from our good friend baron keynes naturally this is utterly wrong headed naturally i do not take much issue with the consequences of european austerity that have been identified however austerity is not the cause of these austerity works just fine if governments do not implement it alongside tax increases which is what pretty much every austerity programme either real or imagined in europe is either proposing or enacting it s the tax increases that will cause the vicious cycle mentioned above not the austerity stupid austerity alone redirects capital from government programmes to more productive areas of the economy resulting in growth but austerity plus tax hikes decreases the size of one part of the economy the public sector and this on its own is of course a good thing whilst putting a yoke on the private sector by preventing individuals and companies from stepping into the breach with punitive taxes discouraging investment or making it unaffordable of course this is a recipe for limitless economic contraction and social misery citizens of a nation that requires a genuine period of austerity must be aware that there will be pain as structural adjustments take place 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