Avenging His Dog – The Fascinating Story of Colorful Congressman “Good Time” Charlie Wilson
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Cold War
The Epic Failure of the Spanish Armada I PIRATES
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in defence economics, war and peace
BBC News reverts to ignoring Gaza missile fire
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At around noon on December 29th sirens warning of incoming missiles sounded in parts of Israel’s Western Negev region.
“Three rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip Friday, the army said, in the first such incident in over a week.
Two of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, while the third fell in Israeli territory in the Shaar Hanegev region, on the Gaza border.
Police said they found the rocket at the entrance to a building that had sustained damaged from the fall.
Rocket warning sirens were heard shortly before midday in the Shaar Hanegev and Sedot Hanegev regions, sending frightened residents running to shelters.”
The IDF later responded with strikes on two Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip.
The BBC did not produce any coverage of the incident.
Since the beginning of the year there have been sixteen separate incidents of missile attacks launched from…
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How to be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist” By Leszek Kolakowski
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in economics
I guess I am a conservative-liberal-socialist like the Polish philosopher and dissident Leszek Kolakowski
“Motto: “Please step forward to the rear!” This is an approximate translation of a request I once heard on a tram-car in Warsaw. I propose it as a slogan for the mighty International that will never exist.
A Conservative Believes:
- That in human life there never have been and never will be improvements that are not paid for with deteriorations and evils; thus, in considering each project of reform and amelioration, its price has to be assessed. Put another way, innumerable evils are compatible (i.e. we can suffer them comprehensively and simultaneously); but many goods limit or cancel each other, and therefore we will never enjoy them fully at the same time. A society in which there is no equality and no liberty of any kind is perfectly possible, yet a social order combining total equality and…
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The economic incentives for criminal behaviour
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in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment
#OTD Peace activists #BDS @NZGreens @AmnestyNZ @GreenpeaceNZ must have no cell phone coverage. No other explanation for their silence?
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in laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, political correctness
Wonder how much solar is producing in artic cold snap in North America?
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in energy economics, environmental economics Tags: Big Solar
Dunkirk re-edited as a Silent Film – The Power of Visual Storytelling
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in movies, war and peace Tags: World War II
More reasons why sociology is unsafe for campuses
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in defence economics, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of natural disasters, law and economics
David Friedman Discusses Market Failure and Solutions
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, law and economics Tags: economics of property rights, new institutional economics
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