Lenin’s Death and Stalin’s Rise to Power I BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1924 Part 1 of 2
27 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, Marxist economics Tags: Russian revolution
Why Mars Is The Hardest Planet To Land On
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: Mars
As wildfires become more catastrophic, are we overlooking free-market ways to lower the cost of reducing them?
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
Like many people, I’ve been monitoring, with dread, updates on the wildfires burning in California. The Camp Fire, which is burning north of Sacramento, has become the deadliest and most destructive wildfire on record for the state.
That fire is another sad reminder that more must be done to reduce fuel loads in many forests. Although this is a serious challenge, it’s also a significant opportunity for environmentalists to innovate. Fires not only kill and destroy property; they also damage watersheds and habitat. So environmentalists have much to gain from avoiding catastrophic wildfire, especially if they can find new ways to do so while minimizing the environmental impacts associated with traditional, commercial timber harvesting.
Reducing fuel loads is expensive. Even where projects avoid bureaucratic delays and litigation, paying for the projects can be a challenge. At a recent event hosted by PERC and the Heritage Foundation, the U.S. Forest Service’s…
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Jacindamania may fade – but not necessarily before the Nats rediscover their mojo
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
she lacks key political skills such as getting rid of political liabilities in cabinet and killing off political issues that are vote losers. Capital gains tax is one example. Another is not putting parameters on the abortion debate. Clark did not go near abortion law reform to she did not want to rocket the Christian parties over the 5% threshold. They were near back then.
Although the rest of the country may still be fingering the results of their Black Friday shopping, no such luck for the politicians as they move into the final phase of the parliamentary year.
Each of the main parties is desperate for a spark to lift performance (and perhaps polling).
PM Jacinda Ardern is taking a shellacking for her silence on China, its human rights offences, its cyber-bullying and in particular the Professor Anne-Marie Brady affair. And then, for reasons no-one can guess at, she has turned a blind eye to the disgraceful performance of Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway in handling the issue of deporting Czech drug smuggler Karel Sroubek.
Is Jacindamania fading? Perhaps not yet, but it soon will, at this rate.
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@againstprisons doesn’t know when to stop digging
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand
Best part is the side note
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Israel, Middle-East politics
Where to speed because there a few speed cameras
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: road safety
After years of setbacks, Virgin Galactic could finally take humans to space
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: space
Spot on
26 Nov 2018 2 Comments
in defence economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics Tags: cranks
New York Times celebrates Muhammad and Islam twice in one edition, emphasizing only the good deeds of the Prophet, and informing us that “true Islam” doesn’t kill blasphemers
26 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
If you had any doubt that the New York Times is going the way of Authoritarian Leftism, which includes whitewashing the nasty bits of Islam, have a look at the two articles that appeared this week—in the same op-ed section.
The first is by Haroon Moghul (click on screenshot below), described as “a fellow in Jewish-Muslim relations at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and the author of ‘How to Be a Muslim: An American Story’.”
Moghul recounts a time in his youth when he was on the verge of atheism, since he couldn’t personally connect with his faith. Then he took a trip to Medina with his brother, and there he had an epiphany that brought him back to Islam:
In Medina I realized I actually believed all the stories about him. That he buried the least loved of his fellow Arabs with his own hands. That…
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