#BBC propagandising our children with pseudoscience, again
17 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
The BBC website hosts handy revision notes for our kids. Who vets the information? Some time ago I posted about their claim that melting sea ice raises the sea level, Archimedes be damned. Now we find that the BBC thinks that dinosaurs invented space travel and colonised Saturn’s moon Titan, forming it’s seas of methane after they died. The idiocy is unbounded.
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The legality of New Zealand’s government, and what should we do about the Doctrine of Discovery?
17 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
Claire Charters makes some remarkable assertions in her 14 July Opinion piece Matariki is a mark of how far we have come and how far we have to travel.
Charters is a law professor at Auckland University. She chaired the He Puapua working group and is the indigenous rights governance partner at the Human Rights Commission. She has ancestral links to Ngāti Whakaue, Tūwharetoa, Ngā Puhi and Tainui. She also has extensive European ancestry.
In her 14 July Opinion piece Professor Charters argues that “before we can claim to be a nation founded on the rule of law, we must address the fundamental illegality of the state.” To add to the sins of the illegal New Zealand state, Charters also opines that “Aotearoa still refuses to repudiate the doctrine of discovery – the racist rule that permitted European powers to take land from “natives” because they didn’t qualify as…
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George Awards A Scholarship | The Van Buren Boys | Seinfeld
17 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in television, TV shows
Why the U.S. Is Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine: A Tale of Excess Stocks and Evolving Strategy
17 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Ukraine
What is this advertising?
16 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of advertising
Economic Freedom: United States vs. Nordic Nations
16 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
There is a recipe for achieving growth and prosperity and I used a grade-point-average analogy earlier this year to explain why it is important to get all the ingredients correct.
Let’s look at some empirical data. I wrote back in March about the Heritage Foundation’s 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, mostly to express pessimism about a worldwide decline in economic liberty.
But I also groused that the United States had fallen to #25 in the rankings.
And I noted that score put America “lower than many European welfare states” because those nations “have higher fiscal burdens, but are more market-oriented in areas like trade and regulation.”
Here’s the proof.
As you can see, the five Nordic nations all rank above the United States. But notice that the United States gets much better scores on “Tax Burden” and “Government Spending.”
The reason these other nation rank above the United States…
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Radar Off-line: How Offshore Wind Turbines Have Wrecked America’s Defence Capability
15 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
Giant industrial wind turbines with the tips of their 50-80m blades clocking 350 kph play havoc with radar systems, giving false images and distorting real ones. The result is unnecessary danger for pilots dependent upon accurate weather reports, and air-traffic guidance, both essential for safe takeoffs and landings.
In a number of States, the US military has obtained legislation to prevent the construction of wind turbines anywhere near their airfields and training grounds.
Chris Smith, a Republican Congressman from New Jersey is not only incensed about the effect that America’s offshore wind industry is having (and if their plans come to fruition, will increasingly have) on radar, he’s equally wild about the effect these things will have on America’s ability to defend itself, more generally. Smith has joined with a group of fellow Republicans to investigate the serious and obviously negative effects these things have on our ability to…
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What are the odds of a safe rocket launch?
15 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: space
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