The Yamato – Largest battleship in History
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Free To Choose 1980 – The Tyranny of Control – Markets
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in Adam Smith, applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, market efficiency, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: invisible hand
The Nixon tapes: A pivotal Watergate story that WaPo missed
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Forty years ago this week, Alexander Butterfield told a U.S. Senate select committee investigating the Watergate scandal that President Richard Nixon had installed a secret audiotaping system in his offices.
Butterfield’s disclosure was one of the most decisive moments in the Watergate. It focused the scandal’s multiple investigations into a months-long pursuit of the tapes — one of which clearly revealed Nixon’s role in attempting to cover up the crimes of Watergate. That revelation forced his resignation in August 1974.
The disclosure of Nixon’s audiotaping system was a major story which the Washington Post — often and inaccurately credited with having “uncovered” or “broken” the Watergate scandal — missed badly.
How the Post fumbled that story makes for an intriguing sidebar at the anniversary of Butterfield’s stunning disclosure. The newspaper’s lead Watergate reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, described in a book about their reporting…
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Newspaper rant deplores ‘debasement of reality’ but invokes prominent media myth
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The Seattle Times seemed almost apoplectic the other day in deploring “the debasement of reality” in “the age of Trumpism,” declaring that “lies” have become “the new currency of political discourse.”
It was a long-form screed alright, which appeared in the newspaper’s Sunday magazine. It was not unlike many otherrantswritten during the war between the press and President Donald Trump.
Journos didn’t do it
What most interested Media Myth Alert was not so much the hyperventilating as the credulous reference to the heroic-journalist myth of Watergate — that reporters brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency.
“The American press didn’t have a spotless record in the past,” the Seattle Times article asserted, adding:
“But more often than not, reporters got it right, from uncovering the ghastly conditions in slaughterhouses [presumably a reference to Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle] to forcing a president’s resignation in the Watergate scandal.”
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Jordan Peterson interviewed by British GQ Magazine Feminist
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in development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of religion, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, liberalism, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, political psychology, regressive left
Air Traffic Controller of USAirways Flight 1549 Hudson River Landing “the Lowest Low I’ve Ever Felt”
20 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: air accidents
SULLY VIDEO : Airline Pilot Explains
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in transport economics Tags: air accidents
Public Opinion for Libertarians – Bryan Caplan (2010)
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational irrationality
Over 1200 research grants awarded to discover we are flawed and the prissy and self-righteous are more likely to be shameless hypocrites
20 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: moral psychology
People Power: German Professors Lead 1,000 Anti-Wind Industry Groups in Assault on Toxic Wind Power
20 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
Who would have thought locals would revolt?
Overrun by 30,000 wind turbines, rural Germans are on the brink of revolt, with over 1,000 groups determined to win back their heartland.
Dwarfed by 200m, 300 tonne behemoths, driven mad by practically incessant low-frequency noise and infrasound, or driven from their homes, tens of thousands of Germans have had enough.
One of the largest and best organised of Germany’s community defenders is Vernunftkraft, a group headed up by ecologists, engineers and economists, many of whom are professors tenured at Germany’s universities. These people are organised; these people are angry.
Here’s No Tricks Zone reporting on Germany’s brewing anti-wind industry backlash.
Swiss Daily NZZ: More Than 1000 Citizen Wind Energy Protest Groups …Germany “On Path To The Unknown”
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
15 January 2019
Although resistance to littering the landscape with industrial wind turbines continues to grow…
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The Assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
20 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics
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