The presidents that have done the most to smash capitalism have never been Democrats, because anti capitalist Democrat presidents have always found themselves paralyzed by gridlock – the pro capitalist faction unites along party lines, and the federal government system locks up, as it was designed to do. The founding fathers intentionally constructed the federal government so that it would be slow and inefficient at making large controversial changes. The greatest catastrophes for capitalism have come from the anticapitalist Republican …
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Genocide and environmentalism
When someone says “There are too many Jews,†we suspect that he wants to kill Jews. And when someone says there are too many people …
US$ declining as a reserve currency
Such a change is cataclysmically rapid compared to the normally glacial rate of monetary change.
Paul Collier explains the famine
the twentieth century was a time of socialist famines. Let us hope the twenty first century is not a time of greenie famines.
Coal to oil is not under development
People are starving yet we still treat energy developers as criminals, rather than heroes.
Regulation kills
Today, a lot of people are going hungry because of an energy crisis. When we look at businesses that are attempting to address the energy crisis, for example Linc Energy Systems, we see that ninety percent of their effort, energy, and thought, is addressed to the political problem of getting permits and approvals, and very little to the merely technical details of collecting energy from nature and making it available in usable form. Linc energy systems plans to use UCG-CTL …
The first greenie famine
The twentieth century was the century of the red famines. Now, in the twenty first century, we are seeing the first greenie famine. Let us hope it will not be the first of many. The red famines killed an extraordinary number of people during the twentieth century – famines caused in part by carelessness, in part by active malice as socialists sought to centralize all food under their direct control. To some extent the red famines were intended to end …
Oil hits $120 a barrel
When capitalism screws up badly, as is happening right now, people are inclined to listen to demagogues who tell them that if only the demagogue got to make decisions, instead of those wicked capitalists, all would be well.
Famine
Tractors are just as attractive to tyrants, demagogues, and terrorists as pipelines are.
Rooftop solar power is actually more dangerous than Chernobyl
Rooftop solar power is actually more dangerous than Chernobyl