What Next for France’s ‘Yellow Vests’? | Dispatches @nytimes
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in fiscal policy, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: France, tax rebellions
A Holocaust Survivor Recalls The Day He Was Liberated
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in economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust
How Uber was kept out of Germany
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in economics of regulation, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: Germany, taxi regulation
Wild Polar Bear Tries To Break In | BBC Earth
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in economics of media and culture
Everything You Need to Know About Living on Mars
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in economics of media and culture Tags: Mars
Will Robots Take Our Jobs?
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in applied price theory, economic history, labour economics, labour supply Tags: automation, creative destruction, pessimism bias
What Happens When A State Grows Way Too Much Weed
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in economics of crime, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, survivor principle Tags: marijuana decrimilization
NOTE TO POLICY MAKERS : 41 Reasons Why Wind ‘Power’ Can Not Replace Fossil Fuels
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INDUSTRIAL Wind Turbines Are Neither “Clean, Green or Renewable” | 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-theory-obsessed politicians continue their ruinous and costly obsession with wind and solar ‘energy’. ‘UNreliables‘ that repeatedly fail the environment, communities and economies wherever installed.
ENERGY poverty, blackouts, skyrocketing power bills…
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A prediction: Do blind people dream?
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CLARIFICATION; By “dreaming” here, I was asking whether blind people have visual dreams.
The NBC News tonight broadcast a segment about a little girl who was born blind but has a really positive attitude: she has her own upbeat show on local radio, reading from a Braille script, and says that the only thing she can’t do is “see.”
That instantly got me wondering: Do blind people dream? And here’s a prediction—actually three predictions—before I’ve checked on the Internet. (I don’t think I’ll check until tomorrow, or I’ll wait until a reader tells me.)
The first prediction, which is mine, is based on the supposition that if someone is born blind, they’ve never been able to process visual input and therefore couldn’t experience it in their brain. Therefore, I predict that they would not be able to dream.
But people who go blind after they’re born would have developed…
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BBC Radio 4’s selective framing of the “hardships” of Gaza Christians
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h/t FB
On the morning of December 24th BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today‘ programme aired yet another report produced during Mishal Husain’s recent visit to the Gaza Strip.
Presenter Justin Webb introduced the item (from 1:42:48 here) as follows: [emphasis in bold added]
Webb: “This time last week we were reporting from Gaza and for its small Christian community this of course is the time of year when many dream of getting to Bethlehem which isn’t, after all, that far away to celebrate Christmas. However, given the blockade maintained by Israel – it says of course that’s for security reasons – travelling to the West Bank requires special permission which many do not get. Mishal Husain went to meet Palestinian Christians at one church in Gaza City.”
Having described the scene at a reception for a “visiting delegation from Jerusalem” and spoken to a couple of children,
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