• The Global Picture

    Liberty, in our time, means enforcing the law of the land on the president: nothing more, and nothing less.

    by  • April 27, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    WAS IT ILLEGAL for American officials [who kidnapped Abu Omar in Italy] to send Abu Omar to Egypt? Yes, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which prohibits delivering someone to a country where there are “substantial grounds” to assume that he might be tortured. Were there substantial grounds to believe that transferring Abu [...]

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    On the global food crisis

    by  • April 26, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    Food riots have broken out across the globe destabilizing large parts of the developing world. China is experiencing double-digit inflation. Indonesia, Vietnam and India have imposed controls over rice exports. Wheat, corn and soy beans are at record highs and threatening to go higher still. Commodities are up across the board. The World Food Program [...]

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    A model of the global economy…

    by  • April 25, 2008 • The Global Picture • 2 Comments

    Suppose six castaways are stranded on a deserted island, five Asians and one American. Further, suppose that the castaways decide to divide the work load among them in the following manner: (for the purpose of simplicity, the only desire the castaways work to satisfy is hunger) one Asian is put in charge of hunting, an [...]

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    Pan Yue on Eco-Socialism

    by  • April 24, 2008 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment

    PY: Actually, the Green Party does not represent eco-socialism. I study eco-socialism, but that is not to say I am in full support of it. It is too idealistic and lacks ways of solving actual problems, particularly for developing countries. However, it does provide political reference for China’s scientific view of development, and gives socialist [...]

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    The eight stages of genocide

    by  • April 23, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    1. Classification: At this stage, social groups are classified into “us versus them.” 2. Symbolization: At this stage, the classifications are symbolized. Groups are given names and other symbols (yellow stars, for example) and are required to wear them either by cultural tradition or laws. In Rwanda, Belgium began to issue identity cards (ID’s) around [...]

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    fixing Libertarianism – the Land Auction

    by  • April 23, 2008 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment

    The State, in its typical form, is nothing more than a protection racket for landowners. And that goes right back into the age of kings and barrons. UPDATE: I’m rederiving Geolibertarianism. Albeit with a much more elegant foundation than land taxes. (spits after word taxes.) The problem with Libertarianism is that it assumes that the [...]

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