Another New York Times editor with a history of bigoted tweets

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Tom Wright-Piersanti is a senior staff editor at the New York Times, and, according to many sources, including the Washington Examiner, The Hill, the New York Post, and so on, it was found that he had a long history of pretty blatant anti-Asian and anti-Semitic remarks in his Twitter feed. Granted, this was about nine years ago, but that history shows someone who, at least then, wasn’t exactly open-minded about certain issues. (Oh hell, let’s just say he was a “bigot”.)

Now the Times fired Quinn Norton as a tech writer over her history of questionable tweets, but decided to retain tech editor Sarah Jeong, who had an equally questionable history of bigoted postings on Twitter (see all my posts on Jeong here). Jeong was allowed to keep her prestigious position at the Times after issuing an apology and saying that her offensive tweets were…

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Daron Acemoglu: Robots and Jobs

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Australia facing energy reliability challenges says report

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Power lines in Victoria, Australia [credit: Wikipedia]
The long-term consequences of exchanging on-demand for unpredictable power generation are not hard to figure out. But political leaders in some countries prefer to ignore such issues, in favour of a questionable ideology that guarantees problems in their increasingly unreliable electricity systems.

A report from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) is a stark reminder of the reliability challenges facing the country’s National Electricity Market (NEM), says PEI.

The Andrews Labour government has been accused of failing to properly replace ageing infrastructure which has created unnecessary risk to the affordability and reliability of the NEM.

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On money in real business cycles models

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August 11, 1945: US Responds to Surrender Offer

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Obamas Worried About Sea Level Rise

23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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Iowa Climate Science Education

Barack Obama is so worried about sea level rise, he is buying a $15 million dollar home on the beach with his $200,000 salary.

Barack and Michelle Obama buying $14.85M Martha’s Vineyard estate

via The Deplorable Climate Science Blog

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Own Goal: Michael Moore Documentary Tackles Dark Side of Wind & Solar

23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

STOP THESE THINGS

Renewable energy zealots must hit the panic button when someone from their own team calls the wind and solar ‘industries’ rotten to the core. The hard green-left and so-called “progressives” take as an article of faith that those among them will worship wind and solar until kingdom come. So, when one of their own starts spilling the beans on what is the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, collective apoplexy soon follows their sense of bewildered betrayal.

The chubby, hot dog munching Michael Moore has made his own small industry in attacking all manner of capitalist endeavours, including the American small arms industry (Bowling for Columbine), its healthcare industry (Sicko) and the entire capital system itself (Capitalism: A Love Story).

Now Moore has turned his peculiar brand of conspiratorial cynicism on the climate industrial complex, pointing out that subsidised wind and solar are just another rort being exploited…

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UNRELIABLES UPDATE : Households Will Be Offered Cash To Switch Off Their Air Conditioners And Help Prevent Blackouts This Summer

23 Aug 2019 11 Comments

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

Climatism

CASH payments for Energy Poverty – CLIMATISM

“Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach.” – Top Google engineers

“We get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” – Warren Buffett

“Suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy.” – James Hansen (The Godfather of global warming alarmism and former NASA climate chief)

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WESTERN climate change-theory-obsessed politicians continue their ruinous and costly obsession with wind and solar ‘energy’. UNreliable ‘power’ that repeatedly fails the environment, communities and economies wherever installed.

ENERGY poverty, blackouts, skyrocketing power bills, business and heavy industry closures, grid…

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Japanese government acknowledges the global warming pause

23 Aug 2019 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

Iowa Climate Science Education

Instead of discouraging the use of coal, Japan is increasing its number of coal-fired power plants by 35 percent.

Data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) clearly indicates that there has been no significant deviation in the monthly average temperature between 1998 and 2018.

Global Warming ‘Pause’ – UAH – Sep 2018-1998

Apparently based on that knowledge, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has sanctioned the addition of 35 new coal power plants to the 100 currently operational.

Since no sane country would want to reduce its energy supplies when average temperatures are declining, I think Abe is responding wisely to the new climate reality.

https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/abes-coal-addiction/

Thanks to David Hartley for these links

“At last the edifice of their Totalitarianism may be showing the first signs of crumbling,” says David.

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BREAKING – Dr. Tim Ball wins @MichaelEMann lawsuit – Mann has to pay

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Iowa Climate Science Education

BREAKING ? Dr. Tim Ball wins @MichaelEMann lawsuit ? Mann has to pay

Readers surely recall that the easily offended Dr. Michael Mann launched a court case for defamation against climate skeptic Dr. Tim Ball of Canada.

In Feburary 2018 there was a complete dismissal in the lawsuit brought against Dr. Ball by Andrew Weaver of Canada, also for ?defamation?.

The Weaver defamation case involved an article Ball wrote saying that the IPCC had diverted almost all climate research funding and scientific investigation to anthropogenic global warming (AGW). This meant that there was virtually no advance in the wider understanding of climate and climate change. Ball referenced an interview with Weaver and attempts by a student to arrange a debate. Ball made some comments that were not fully substantiated, so they became the base of the defamation lawsuit.

That case was completely dismissed, you can read more here.

Now…

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My @NZHerald op-ed on petrol prices and competition

23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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Paywalled at https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12260923

Victoria’s Suicidal 50% Renewable Energy Target Set to Wreck Grid & Drive Power Prices Into Orbit

22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

STOP THESE THINGS

Want to know what a 50% RET does to grid stability and power prices, then look no further than South Australia.

Despite some desperate wind industry propaganda efforts suggesting that South Australians are currently enjoying 1970s power prices, Australia’s renewable energy capital still pays the world’s highest power prices – thanks to its ludicrous 50% Renewable Energy Target.

SA’s 50% RET was the product of an unhinged state Labor government. At the last Federal election, Bill Shorten campaigned on a policy of delivering the South Australian ‘experience’ to every other state in the Commonwealth, with a 50% RET to be enforced nationwide.

The promise has long been that if we roll-out millions more solar panels and thousands more of these things – coupled up with mythical mega-batteries – power prices must surely plummet. They haven’t (see above); and there’s much worse to come.

Where Bill Shorten failed in his bid…

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More Watergate mythologizing: Woodward, Bernstein ‘let facts speak’ and Nixon fell

22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

Media Myth Alert

It’s almost predictable: When controversy flares about contemporary practices of American journalists, commentators not infrequently reach back to Watergate for reassurance about how effective and admirable high-minded reporting can be.

Nixon, 1974: Quits, leaves D.C.

The Watergate parable is ever-available if not especially precise. It’s more mythical than accurate, as a commentary the other day in the Boston Herald suggested.

The commentary’s author addressed the recent, overwrought controversy about a front-page headline in the New York Times that many of its readers, and staffers, thought was too generous to President Donald Trump.

“Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism,” declared the headline, which survived only the Times’ first print edition of August 6. The newspaper’s executive editor, Dean Baquet, later termed it “a f*cking mess” that editors quickly reworked.

What interests Media Myth Alert is not so much the agitation about the Times’ headline as the Herald’s hero-treatment of…

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BBC repeats uncritical promotion of ‘Gaza’ film

21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

BBC Watch

h/t AB

Earlier this month we documented the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme’s one-sided presentation of the Gaza Strip in an item concerning a new film about that location.

Gaza propaganda on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’

The August 19^th edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘World Update’ devoted over nine of its fifty-three minutes of airtime to a similar exercise.

“And a new documentary shows everyday life for those living in Gaza.”

Presenter Rebecca Kesby introduced the item (from 43:38 here) using some bizarre linkage that included an unsupported assertion. [emphasis in italics in the original, emphasis in bold added]

Kesby: “Now, the Palestinian territories have been in the news over the past few days, partly because Israel denied permission for two US Congresswomen to visit them following pressure from President Trump. Israel did then allow Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib permission to make…

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Some Remarkably Bad Ideas from Democrats

21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory

American Elephants

We are not alone in our annoyance with the Media and the folks producing the news the Media write about. There’s a lot of disagreement. But then the problem is not those who disagree, it is simply the fact that we are all human, and basically hard to get along with. Unfortunately that isn’t really fixable. We have trouble getting along with our own family, let alone a bunch of strangers who are saying and doing things that we disagree with completely.

•Harry Reid, former Democrat Senate Majority Leader says that the Democrats are heading down the wrong path by pushing “medicare for all” and the decriminalization of illegal border crossings.

•James Piereson, writing in City Journal says “Economic indicators point to continued, moderate growth, despite the prognostications of the pundit class. and the volume of these forecasts is driven by partisan hopes that and economic downturn presents the best…

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Another New York Times editor with a history of bigoted tweets

Daron Acemoglu: Robots and Jobs

Australia facing energy reliability challenges says report

On money in real business cycles models

August 11, 1945: US Responds to Surrender Offer

Obamas Worried About Sea Level Rise

Own Goal: Michael Moore Documentary Tackles Dark Side of Wind & Solar

UNRELIABLES UPDATE : Households Will Be Offered Cash To Switch Off Their Air Conditioners And Help Prevent Blackouts This Summer

Japanese government acknowledges the global warming pause

BREAKING – Dr. Tim Ball wins @MichaelEMann lawsuit – Mann has to pay

BREAKING ? Dr. Tim Ball wins @MichaelEMann lawsuit ? Mann has to pay

My @NZHerald op-ed on petrol prices and competition

Victoria’s Suicidal 50% Renewable Energy Target Set to Wreck Grid & Drive Power Prices Into Orbit

More Watergate mythologizing: Woodward, Bernstein ‘let facts speak’ and Nixon fell

BBC repeats uncritical promotion of ‘Gaza’ film

Some Remarkably Bad Ideas from Democrats

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