Kitsch/Posh » Saudi Arabia http://kitsch-posh.com Mmm, Needs More Blog. Tue, 01 May 2012 16:30:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 “Black cat, white cat, what matters is whether it catches the mouse”? http://kitsch-posh.com/2008/11/23/black-cat-white-cat-what-matters-is-whether-it-catches-the-mouse/ http://kitsch-posh.com/2008/11/23/black-cat-white-cat-what-matters-is-whether-it-catches-the-mouse/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:04:26 +0000 M http://kitsch-posh.com/?p=539 Despite the Bush administration’s persistence it is still not generally recognized as a principle of international law that terrorists are hostis humani generis—enemies of humanity that do not enjoy the protection of any laws whatsoever—and this special status continues to be reserved for pirates and slavers.

So presumably Somalia’s Islamist fighters are a step up from pirates. Or perhaps the Saudi policy of making sure to have plenty of terrorists bought and paid for is returning some dividend, at least seemingly so. [CNN]

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Look here, this is getting a little insane. There hasn’t been some sort of a major materials engineering breakthrough. What has happened is a massive accumulation of capital in the hands of a few people that collect rent on minerals extraction.

But this is at least a whole order of magnitude smaller than the amount of capital that Americans burned on housing. Three hundred million idiots are better than one.

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