Strikes and Mutiny I THE GREAT WAR Week 184
01 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Power Drain: Risible Reliance on Intermittent Wind & Solar Means Summer Blackouts Beckon
30 Sep 2019 1 Comment
Now you’ve made your acquaintance, get on and start using it.
Subsidised into existence, intermittent wind and solar now pose existential threats to Australia’s once reliable power supply, this summer and beyond.
No industrialised country has ever run itself on sunshine and breezes; no country serious about maintaining first world living standards, ever will.
So just how Australia’s energy boffins still cling to the notion that wind and solar are meaningful parts of the so-called ‘energy mix’, remains a mystery.
Ross Fitzgerald attempts to unravel that mystery in a pertinent and timely article below.
Don’t Leave Us in the Dark, Mr Morrison
Quadrant Online
Ross Fitzgerald
19 September 2019
Just now, the Morrison government still seems secure. Its narrow but decisive win has shattered an opposition that had thought it was coasting to victory. The Labor Party is about to begin a civil war between green-left ideologues and old-fashioned pragmatists…
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Anti-Slavery Patrols – The West Africa Squadron
30 Sep 2019 1 Comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, property rights Tags: economics of slavery
Civil Rights in Song (3): Sweet Home Alabama – Neil Young, Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Wallace and all that
30 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
In 1970, Neil Young released his classic album, After the Goldrush. One of its standout tracks was Southern Man.
The following year, Young recorded the follow up, Harvest. This featured the song Alabama. The South more generally, and Alabama in particular was in his sights.
In 1973, Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded their classic song in reply, Sweet Home Alabama.
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow
Over the years, it was often assumed that the band hated Young, or even that they were the voice of the white racist south. Neither ‘fact’ was true.
Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zant would later claim that:
We wrote Alabama as a joke…We didn’t even think about it — the words just came out that way. We just laughed like hell, and said ‘Ain’t that funny’… We love Neil Young, we love his…
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BOATLIFT – An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience
30 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, transport economics, war and peace Tags: 9/11
Meghan Murphy was banned by Twitter for misgendering the wax my balls serial litigant @JLongReporter @BrittneyDeguara @RubyMacandrew
30 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: law and order, nuisance suits, political correctness, regressive left
‘Television made all the difference’ in McCarthy’s fall, Watergate? Hardly
30 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
The Washington Post’s media columnist, Margaret Sullivan, offered the facile observation in an essay yesterday that last week brought “a tectonic shift of media attention, [with] every major television network — broadcast and cable alike — focused on a deeply damaging story” about President Donald Trump, a story he “can’t control.”
Sullivan
As if Trump could “control” the frenzy over disclosures he encouraged Ukraine’s president to investigate shady dealings in that country by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.
As if anyone could “control” such a bizarre frenzy.
We’ll see how long this latest frenzy lasts. For now, allegations of Trump’s misconduct seem too nebulous to support impeachment, let alone conviction after trial before the Republican-controlled Senate.
Of keener interest to Media Myth Alert were passages in Sullivan’s column that touted the presumptive power of television in the downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 and…
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@BillMaher on Hunter Biden: If It Was Don Jr., ‘It Would Be All Rachel Maddow Was Talking About’
30 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, bribery and corruption
Intersectionality comes back to bit itself. Black women don’t suffer from a second layer of discrimination, racial discrimination
30 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap, racial discrimination
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