The Great Palestinian Hero Shop!
One Stop Shopping for all your despot needs….
h/t: SondraK
Another Brick in the Wall
Shocka! Poor kids making the grade at charter school that stresses hard work, discipline and good old fashion capitalism!
H/T: Sleepy Old Bear
One Car Czar to Another
Ceausescu micromanaged Oltcit, but he didn’t even know how to drive a car, much less run a car industry. To save the foreign currency he coveted, he decreed that the components for the Oltcit were to be manufactured at 166 existing Romanian factories. Coordinating 166 plants to have them deliver all the parts on time would be a monumental job even for an experienced car producer. It proved impossible for the Romanian bureaucracy, which pretended to work and was paid accordingly. The Oltcit factory could produce only 1% to 1.5% of its intended capacity owing to the lack of the parts that those 166 companies were supposed to furnish simultaneously. The Oltcit project lost billions. —ION MIHAI PACEPA
