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Bizarre and Uninformed American Views on Monarchy

20 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

This is what Americans like Conor Friedersdorf have in mind when they write erroneous opinion pieces on the Royal House of Windsor

In general, I really wish that Americans would stop commenting altogether on the Royal House of Windsor, especially after the demise of Crown and the death of Her Late Majesty Elizabeth II of happy memory. Americans lost your standing and legitimacy to opine on any of these matters when then rebelled in the 1770s and should stop clumsily grafting their particular American narratives onto a system which they neither appreciate nor understand and which their ancestors expressly rejected. Americans obsess over the Royal House of Windsor – but only in a superficial, banal, and vulgar way. Our Royal Family satisfies their worship of celebrity and their gargantuan appetite for Disney-like kitsch. They see the Windsors as mere celebrities for their amusement and as objects of condescending comments about…

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Lindsay Mitchell: On child poverty, racism and colonisation

20 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

Point of Order

A table in an article posted on Bassett, Brash & Hide shows there are 53,000 NZ European compared to a total of 47,000 combined other ethnicities (using the most recent data reported in June 2021).

Poverty, plainly, has no colour. There are more New Zealand European children in material hardship than all other ethnicities put together.

Social commentator LINDSAY MITCHELL – the author of the article – writes:

A just-published Listener article asks, “Why doesn’t middle-class NZ care about child poverty?” It gathers views from half a dozen people including a principal, a teacher, an advocate against child poverty, a charity head, a Māori provider chair and Pasifika social worker. Apparently, they told the Listener that the middle-class has become indifferent to child poverty.

Yet a careful reading of the piece finds it is primarily the Child Poverty Action Group advancing the idea that,

“For middle white New Zealand…

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The Great Wind Power Swindle: Households & Businesses Being Crushed By Record Power Bills

19 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

STOP THESE THINGS

If wind power is cheap, why does every country obsessed with it suffer rocketing power prices?

The game of smoke and mirrors played by renewable energy rent-seekers, has enabled them to avoid any critical scrutiny of the role heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar play in driving power prices into orbit. A decade of blame-shifting, obfuscation, concealment and downright lies have largely convinced the masses that the cause of their crushing power bills lies somewhere else.

Dr Benny Peiser has been studying and reporting on the causes and consequences of Britain’s self-inflicted renewable energy calamity since the disaster began. In the article and YouTube video below (which is well worth viewing), Dr Peiser pulls no punches, when he details and describes the greatest swindle of all time.

The great wind farm rip off: greedy energy giants sell us wind electricity at wholesale gas price
Scottish Daily Express
Ben Borland

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Court Again Refuses to Legislate Climate Policy

19 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

Science Matters

Climatists again fail to get a judge to order their program and thus bypass lawmaking by elected representatives. Denise Lavoie reports at The Virginian-Pilot Virginia judge dismisses youth climate change lawsuit. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.

RICHMOND — A Virginia judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of 13 young people who claim that the state’s permitting of fossil fuel projects is exacerbating climate change and violating their constitutional rights.

The lawsuit filed by Our Children’s Trust, an Oregon-based nonprofit public interest law firm, asked the court to declare portions of the Virginia Gas and Oil Act unconstitutional. It also seeks to find the state’s reliance on and promotion of fossil fuels violates the rights of the plaintiffs, who range in age from 10 to 19.

But Richmond Circuit Court Judge Clarence Jenkins Jr. granted the state’s request to dismiss the lawsuit, finding that the…

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Why the bankers’ bonus cap should be scrapped

18 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

Plain-speaking Economics

The new Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, is said to be considering scrapping the EU’s cap on bonuses in the financial sector. This would be hard to sell to the public, but is still the right thing to do.

The ‘bankers bonus cap’ is part of the Capital Requirements Directive IV that was first applied to credit institutions and investment firms across the EU in 2014. It limits the discretionary bonuses that they can pay to senior managers and other “material risk takers” to no more than 100% of their fixed (basic) pay, or 200% with the approval of shareholders. It remains part of the UK rules after Brexit.

The case for scrapping the cap is straightforward. It is a clumsy rule whose costs outweigh any potential benefits. In particular, it has led firms to increase basic pay and made it harder for them to adjust variable pay, This has added to…

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Don Brash on the disingenuous Leftist radicals in parliament

18 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

Waikanae Watch

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth has passed away, and the overwhelming majority of people in New Zealand mourn her passing.

Not, of course, because her death was unexpected, or a tragedy in the ordinary sense of that word: at the age of 96 and increasingly suffering “mobility issues”, she had outlived the great majority of her subjects by at least a decade and was able to perform her royal duties right up to the end. Not for her, prolonged physical incapacity or mental decline. Just hours before her passing, she asked Liz Truss, the new Leader of the Conservative Party, to form a new British Government.

But mourn her passing we do because she was, for seven decades, not only the Head of State of New Zealand but the wise and mature head of the Commonwealth, that loose agglomeration of countries which at one time or another were ruled by the…

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some history the Wokeists won’t like

18 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

Waikanae Watch

The Wokeists in company with a small number of radical extremists have been falsifying NZ history for some time now, but their new narrative often clashes with the facts:

MP Karaitiana Takamoana (Eastern Maori) in c.1871 tried to pass legislation to force all Maori school children to learn only in English. According to Parliament’s website, he did not himself speak English. However, he did dress himself up and otherwise indulge in expensive Western ‘urban sophisticaiton’. For example, this chief went into debt building his own, large, Maori Club House in Napier and ended up having to sell off his people’s land to cover the damage.”

PETITION OF WI TE HAKIRO AND 336 OTHERS (PART OF)

[TRANSLATION.] — 7. “NATIVE SCHOOLS ACT, 1867.”

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[Translation.]
7. “Native Schools Act, 1867.”

Wedesire that “The Native Schools Act, 1867,” should be amended to this…

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Our Changing World

18 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

No Minister

There’s been a political earthquake in Sweden overnight:

Sweden’s right-wing parties combined to win a remarkable, if slim, election victory on Wednesday, buoyed by surging supportfor a far-right nationalist party, the Sweden Democrats, an electoral convulsion expected to shake national politics and likely end eight years of rule by the center-left.

But it’s been coming for some time as crime has risen relentlessly and Sweden’s famed Centre-Left consensus on all matters began to fade due to hubristic, ideological and frankly stupid decisions by the The Powers That Be, starting with mass immigration from the Middle East:

Over the last twenty years the Sweden Democrats have gone from being a “extremist fringe party” at nearly zero percent in the polls to twenty percent plus , while the Social Democrats have dropped from 45% to 30%, having ruled the nation for all but 15 years since 1932.

I don’t envy the…

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We just paid Belgium 50 times the going rate to keep London’s lights on – how did it come to this?

17 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

The Princess of Wales is not “Princess Catherine.”

17 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

European Royal History

Like yesterday’s post concerning how is a Queen Consort is refered to, I will look at how a Princess of Wales is addressed.

Princess of Wales (Welsh: Tywysoges Cymru) is a courtesy title first held by the wife of a native Prince of Wales. Since the 14th century, it has been used by the wife of the heir apparent to the English and later British throne. The current title-holder is Catherine, wife of William, Prince of Wales.

From 1301 onward, the eldest sons of the Kings of England (and later Great Britain and the United Kingdom) have generally been created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, and their wives have been titled Princess of Wales.

HRH The Princess of Wales

Although not granted the title in her own right, the future Queen Mary I was, during her youth, invested by her father, King Henry VIII, with many of the…

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Holocaust testimonies from victims, perpetrators and liberators.

17 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

Reports on The Holocaust

17 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

History of Sorts

I know that looking back on history with a retrospective view always comes with a 20/20 vision, nevertheless it is important to understand that it was widely know what was happening to the Jewish population in Europe throughout World War 2. Too often I have heard the argument that no one knew until after the war. There were regular reports issued to the governments of the allied forces and to newspapers.

The picture above is a cutting from the Daily Worker newspaper of an open letter – also published in the Times – by well-known figures appealing for action against the mistreatment of Jews in Europe. It was issued in February 1943.

Transcript
DAILY WORKER

Cutting dated …17 Feb 1943 … 194

Britain Urged To Act Now and Save Jews

The following letter appeared in the Times yesterday: –

We have noted with satisfaction the Joint Declaration of the United…

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Crippling Cost of ‘Green’ Energy Means Millions of Americans Can’t Afford Power

16 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

STOP THESE THINGS

Claims that wind and solar are cheap, simply don’t add up. Glaring examples such as Germany, Denmark and South Australia tell the tale.

Like night follows day, add heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar to your grid, and power prices are bound to spiral out of control.

California led America in the race to wreck its power grid with chaotically intermittent wind and solar. As a result, power prices are rocketing, with Californians paying the highest rates in the US, by a country mile. But, as the subsidised wind and solar cancer spreads across the United States, consumers are starting to understand the truly crippling cost of their ‘inevitable’ wind and solar transition.

As John Hinderaker points out below, with millions of Americans faced with power bills that they simply cannot pay, something has to give.

A Tsunami of Shutoffs
Powerline
John Hinderaker
28 August 2022

Tens…

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Queen Consort: What Does The Title Mean?

16 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

European Royal History

With accession of HM King Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland there is some confusion as to the title of his wife, the former Duchess of Cornwall.

His Majesty the King

The late Queen, Elizabeth II, in a statement marking her platinum jubilee, said she wants Prince Charles’ wife, Camilla, to be known as the “Queen Consort” when he takes the throne.

Previously, when Charles, as Prince of Wales, married Camilla in 2005 she took the title Duchess of Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall being one of her husband’s secondary titles) instead of Princess of Wales, which she legally had but did not use out of respect for the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

It was also stated at the time that when Charles became King his wife would adopt the title Princess Consort instead of Queen. So the late Queen Elizabeth II stating her…

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Assessing the Biden Economy

15 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

International Liberty

According to polling data, President Biden is not getting good grades for economic policy.

Part of that is because of inflation, though I’ve repeatedly pointed out that the blame belongs with the Federal Reserve rather than Biden. And the big mistake from the Fed took place before Biden even took office.

Unfortunately, the President is not trying to make things better. His appointments to the Fed suggest he doesn’t understand the need for good monetary policy.

And all of his major legislative initiatives (the so-called stimulus, the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, the pork-filled infrastructure legislation, and the cronyist handouts to the semiconductor industry) have increased the size and scope of government.

For what it’s worth, I think Biden’s big challenge – both politically and economically – is that Americans are losing ground. Simply stated, prices are increasing faster than incomes.

But that isn’t stopping the Administration…

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Utopia, you are standing in it!

Bizarre and Uninformed American Views on Monarchy

Lindsay Mitchell: On child poverty, racism and colonisation

A table in an article posted on Bassett, Brash & Hide shows there are 53,000 NZ European compared to a total of 47,000 combined other ethnicities (using the most recent data reported in June 2021).

Poverty, plainly, has no colour. There are more New Zealand European children in material hardship than all other ethnicities put together.

Social commentator LINDSAY MITCHELL – the author of the article – writes:

The Great Wind Power Swindle: Households & Businesses Being Crushed By Record Power Bills

Court Again Refuses to Legislate Climate Policy

Why the bankers’ bonus cap should be scrapped

Don Brash on the disingenuous Leftist radicals in parliament

some history the Wokeists won’t like

PETITION OF WI TE HAKIRO AND 336 OTHERS (PART OF)

[TRANSLATION.] — 7. “NATIVE SCHOOLS ACT, 1867.”

Our Changing World

We just paid Belgium 50 times the going rate to keep London’s lights on – how did it come to this?

The Princess of Wales is not “Princess Catherine.”

Holocaust testimonies from victims, perpetrators and liberators.

Reports on The Holocaust

Crippling Cost of ‘Green’ Energy Means Millions of Americans Can’t Afford Power

Queen Consort: What Does The Title Mean?

Assessing the Biden Economy

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Social commentator LINDSAY MITCHELL – the author of the article – writes:

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