UTTERLY BARKING INSANE

[unixronin]

The UK, that is.  According to this (admittedly Daily Mail) story, it is now considered discrimination in the UK to require in a job posting that job applicants be "reliable" or able to speak English.

The Once-Great Britain, leading the race to the bottom since about 1990....

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[selfishgene.livejournal.com]

I notice that ever since guns were banned there, crime has increased and the government acts with increasingly open contempt of public opinion.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

If you track it back, the process started back in about 1930, when Parliament was deathly afraid of Bolsheviks and a possible workers' revolution. Along about 1960, the Labour Party grabbed the reins and turned them to their own end, and now in 2009, here we are with more of Orwell's cautionary tale becoming real every day ... except with more stupid, not least because the last set of Parliamentary reforms basically told the House of Lords, long a moderating influence, to sit down and STFU. I expect to see the Lords abolished for good within the next decade or two.

[selfishgene.livejournal.com]

As an anarchist I condemn all governments but I recognise some are more tolerable in practice than others. It is sad to see a nation with a long history of comparatively sensible government slide downhill so fast.
The most important question, for Americans and also others, is whether America will also collapse so swiftly. When the Bank of England failed in the 1950s after many generations of strength, the Federal Reserve was there to prop up the world economic system. If the Fed fails there does not seem to be an plausible alternative. Japan is too small and has too many problems of its own. China is large and has potential but its financial system has no global credibility since their currency is not traded worldwide. I believe that fiat money is destructive and can easily (in a free market) be replaced by something objective like gold or silver. However governments derive enormous wealth from their fiat money scam and their reaction to losing that wealth will not be pretty. The last time there was a severe global depression it was followed by a severe world war.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Can't argue with any of that.