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I met Jeffrey Dahmer back in 1992 during his wild years! YES he was a troubled soul. He was young. He was handsome. But he definitely didn’t put me in a vat of acid or serve up my cock in a curry.
Just saying 🤔
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Sir John Cowperthwaite ran Hong Kong's finances from 1961 to 1971 and treated regulation like a tax on discovery. Nobody in government can know which business will work, so he refused to pick, plan, or protect.
Whitehall sent officials to Hong Kong to push for economic statistics, and he sent them home. When Milton Friedman asked in 1963 why he collected so little data, Cowperthwaite answered: "If I let them compute those statistics, they'll want to use them for planning." Numbers give planners a reason to act, and every plan arrives as a rule that tells entrepreneurs what they may not try. Asked what poor countries should do to grow, he said they should abolish the office of national statistics.
He rebuffed tariffs, opposed corporate subsidies, and refused London's push to raise taxes. When a legislator proposed that the government back promising industries, he asked how the government could possibly know which ones those were.
The results arrived without a plan. During his decade as Financial Secretary, real wages rose 50% and the share of residents in acute poverty fell from 50% to 15%. When he took the job, the average Hong Kong resident earned about a quarter of what a Briton earned. By the early 1990s, Hong Kongers out-earned Britons. Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, planned its economy with ministries full of statisticians and fell behind a rock with no resources except a harbor.
Every regulation assumes a regulator who knows which experiments to allow. That regulator does not exist, so each gate he builds blocks the ideas nobody in the room could have predicted. Hong Kong's most valuable policy was the absence of a gatekeeper.
As far as civil servants go, this guy is the GOAT.
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Siedem dni to rozpętania piekła w Polsce !!!
W Polsce protesty antyrządowe przed Trybunałem Konstytucyjnym trwają kolejny dzień. Prezydent dał dla premiera Tuska czas do 11 listopada na podanie się do dymisji. Policja odmówiła spacyfikowania protestujących siłą na wezwanie puczystowskiej sędzi Trybunału Konstytucyjnego. Rząd rozpoczął prześladowanie buntujących się policjantów w tym przewodniczącego związku zawodowego Policji. W stolicy pojawiły się patrole z bronią automatyczną a na drogach szybkiego ruchu coraz więcej obcych wojsk.
To wszystko wydarzyło się od wczoraj.
Siedem dni to dnia z ultimatum prezydenta, kiedy rozpęta się piekło. Pilnujcie razem z nami aby nie ukradli nam wolności. Wasze wsparcie jest dla nas bardzo ważne.
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Again, this is an extremely reasonable point to make, but it misses the point Labour and the broader establishment are making. For them, getting close to the EU is an end in and of itself. The costs are irrelevant unless they make a specific step politically impossible. If they create politically manageable costs, then as far as they're concerned, that only improves their ability to argue for rejoining because they can say "If all these regulations are costing us so much, then we should rejoin and have a say in writing them."
Therefore, highlighting the costs of dynamic alignment or, say, subsidising the university fees of EU students, is irrelevant until they actually reach the point where they're politically unmanageable -- a very high barrier, since pretty much the entirety of the media will ignore them, and therefore normies won't get to hear about them.
Even small local bakeries that never trade with the EU will have to follow EU rules on ingredients, packaging, and nutritional information. Industry compliance costs are estimated at £2 to £3 billion. They will also face additional compliance costs every time the EU changes its rules.
UK taxpayers will also have to pay the EU for its policy work to create and enforce these rules on UK firms. This could be up to £3 billion a year, every year.
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Yes - quite rightly, the John Lewis Christmas ad is being slated.
It is bad for so many reasons.
However, what it DOES get right is the correct depiction of many of today’s kids.
Selfish, rude & with a sense of entitlement all going unchecked by indulgent parents.
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How can universities have gone through centuries of Reformation and Enlightenment, only to return to the imposition of quasi-religious dogma, prescribed social orthodoxy, and a Test Act?
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Unelected officials are rubbish at reading the room. Cocooned in their ivory towers, they've never had to stand for election and they're completely unaccountable to electorates.
The EU got it completely wrong when they decided to make a monkey out of David Cameron and it resulted in a referendum, the outcome of which the out of touch failed to predict.
The Polish response to the attempted coup looks to be a similarly misjudged own goal by EU zealots.
Rather than shaping policy to reflect current political realities, the EU tries to double down on its doctrines. It's always a decade behind the times; slow, cumbersome, unable to be dynamic and in touch. It is the torpid author of its own demise.
It's crucified industry across Europe with its suicidal green agendas. It's destroyed businesses with excessive regulation, whilst simultaneously allowing sub standard imports from the Far East to flood the market.
Less than 2 decades ago Europe's economy was on par with the US, yet now it trails pathetically behind, unable to unleash itself from dogmatic, unyielding policy.
It finds itself swamped with illegal immigration; the very existence of Europe's cultural and historic identity is being extinguished before our eyes, but Shengen must be preserved at all costs and what a dear price we're all paying.
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Yeah, I’m not sure I’m gonna be taking these guys especially seriously as having a rigorous methodology here
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
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Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
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Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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What a heartbreaking week it has been. Sir Patrick Stewart was a friend, a colleague, and a magnificent actor. From the stage to the bridge of the Enterprise, he brought intelligence, grace, and a deep sense of humanity to everything he did. Captain Picard stood for the best of us, and so did the man who played him. I was filled with affection and admiration for him and his work.
My heart goes out to Sunny and his family. He will be deeply missed.
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Horrible news. Patrick Stewart was obviously a legend, remembered for so many of his classic roles. Truly a loss.
By way of my own remembrance, here’s what may have been the apex role of his career: A cameo as the conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra who’s trying to date Frasier Crane on Frasier
Patrick Stewart, 'Star Trek' Captain and 'X-Men' Superhero, Dies at 86 hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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Question to those who think socialism is better than capitalism: When the Berlin wall fell, who ran to which side?
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"I am shocked, shocked to find, after three years of weekly hate marches, and my colleague and mentor, Ed Miliband, helping legitimise the government of Iran (prior to a terrorist attack) and delegitimise Israel, that Jews don't feel as safe in the UK." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq39…
