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Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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Rock, Rock, Rockin’ at Heaven’s Door Youthful policeman are a standard yardstick of personal maturity and you really know that middle age is looming when politicians begin to look ‘fresh-faced’. However, there is nothing quite like the passing of your teenage rock ‘n’ roll idols to have you looking in the mirror and counting those grey hairs.
“Joe Strummer, lead singer of seventies punk band The Clash, has died at the age of 50.”
‘The Clash’ provided the background music for my student years. I loved them. R.I.P Joe and thankyou.
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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London Calling is part of that stack of CDs on my desk that never manage to get put away.
Nah. My pop heroes died when I was five and thirteen: Jimi Hendrix and Sid Vicious.
It’s very difficult for me to look back nine years to the loss of Frank Zappa. Simply laying eyes on “Freak Out”, when I was ten years old (1966), was one of those moments when the wiring in my brain changed instantly, and that was before I even listened to a single note of it.
We’re talking about a lifetime, here.