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in economics of climate change, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, televison
By Paul Homewood Attenborough’s “Climate Change- The Facts” was aired in 2019. How do his claims of climate doom look now, seven years on? https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00049b1/climate-change-the-facts At the start of the broadcast, Attenborough states: “Right now we are facing our greatest threat in thousands of years – climate change” “What we’re doing right now is we’re […]
Attenborough’s “Facts” Seven Years On
19 May 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
The Post reports: News the Israeli embassy is moving to a new Wellington location, with some tenants currently unaware, is drawing parallels to “human shield” allegations made against Hamas. The Israeli Embassy is on the 13th floor of a Brandon St office block but is soon moving to Ballance St, in a building shared by…
Disgusting comments by the Greens
19 May 2026 Leave a comment
Below is a longer version of my column in the New York Post on the announced plan of Israel to…
Defamation, She Wrote: Israel Moves to Sue the “Gray Lady” Over Kristof Column
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in television, TV shows
Bill Maher continues his defense of Israel on the country’s birthday by pointing out the pervasive Israel-dissing of the mainstream media, adding that there is one thing that the American Left and Right agree on: Israel is the “monster country of all time” (he includes the NYT in this category). He also calls out Democrats,…
Bill Maher’s new rule: “No Jews, no news”
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One of the most common questions I get asked by audiences is whether NZ First will go with National or Labour after the election. My response is that there is no reason to not take Winston at his word when he says he has ruled out Labour. But now a speech by Winston has given…
Is this the proof Winston is planning to go with Labour
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in politics - New Zealand Tags: constitutional law
After Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939 there was an eight-month period in which there were a few brief skirmishes but very little significant fighting on land. The standoff in Western Europe was dubbed the “Phoney War”, the “Bore War”, and the “sitzkrieg” (“the sitting war” — in contrast to the blitzkrieg inflicted on Poland). Military […]
Hipkins drags out Phoney War with Coalition
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in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
For years, we have been fed a never-ending diet of apocalyptic climate scares – killer heatwaves, biblical floods, deadly droughts, devastating hurricanes, to name just a few. The post Ding Dong, RCP8.5 Is Dead! appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Ding Dong, RCP8.5 Is Dead!
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in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, constitutional law, nuisance suits
Climate Change Dispatch reports DOJ Sues Minnesota Over State Climate Lawsuit Targeting Energy Companies. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. Justice Department argues the state case oversteps federal authority, seeks to reshape national energy policy. The complaint, filed Monday, May 4, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, accuses […]
DOJ Sues Against Minnesota’s Climate Lawsuit
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Published in 1991, “Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1908-1960” is the first volume in a two-volume series on LBJ written by Robert Dallek. Dallek is a retired professor of history and the author of nearly two dozen books including a bestselling biography of JFK (which I recently read and liked) and a […]
Review of “Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1908-1960 (Vol 1)” by Robert Dallek
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in applied price theory, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand Tags: competition law
The Commerce Commission’s “State of Competition in New Zealand” report landed on Tuesday. It is arguably the most important economic document of the political year. It names four sectors as the country’s least competitive: electricity, gas, water and waste services; financial and insurance services; information media and telecommunications; and mining. The night before the report […]
The Regulator has confirmed the NZ economy is rigged
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in discrimination, economics of education, politics - New Zealand Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
We previously discussed a disturbing account of how medical students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University…
UCLA Medical School Accused of Racial Discrimination in Defiance of the Supreme Court
17 May 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, industrial organisation, international economics, politics - USA Tags: free trade, tarrifs
TweetHere’s a letter to a new correspondent. Mr. H__: Thanks for your email. You write, in response to this post of mine, that I am “too quick at second guessing the president and his administration on its determination of the trade behaviors of other countries.” You say that I “owe the administration the benefit of…
They Don’t Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt
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in labour economics, labour supply, politics Tags: British politics, economics of immigration
The Guardian reports: A Reform government will not put any migrant detention facilities in any constituency with a Reform MP. Nor will we put them where Reform controls the council. And of the remaining areas, we will prioritise Green controlled parliamentary constituencies and Green controlled councils to locate the detention centres. Put simply, if you…
Reform’s trolling policy
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Max Boot’s long-awaited “Reagan: His Life and Legend” was released two weeks ago. Boot is an author, historian and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His 2018 “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. For a modern president who […]
Review of “Reagan: His Life and Legend” by Max Boot
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in fiscal policy, labour economics, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Iceland
Over the years, I’ve written about the successful private retirement systems in jurisdictions such as Australia, Chile, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Netherlands, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Israel, and Sweden. Today’s column will add to the collection because we’re going to look at Iceland’s remarkable system of personal retirement accounts. We’ll start with two charts. Here’s a […]
Iceland’s Superb Private Retirement System
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