Biden’s Big Fat Lie: Wind & Solar Doesn’t Save Money – It’s 4-6 Times MORE Expensive
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Those countries out to rely on wind and solar inevitably suffer rocketing power prices and power rationing.
Australia’s self-inflicted renewable energy calamity has seen power prices double in a matter of months; the wholesale power market is in chaos, caused by rapid and total collapses in wind and solar output; and major energy users are unceremoniously dumped from the grid whenever the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in.
Much of Europe is in the same boat, with wind and solar obsessed Germany suffering the world’s highest power prices, by far. [Note to Ed: Australia’s wind and solar capital, South Australia isn’t far behind]
So, it takes a fair degree of audacity to try and convince the masses that adding more wind and solar will result in falling power prices.
One with the necessary pluck is America’s hapless President, Joe Biden.
Stephen Moore – a distinguished fellow in economics…
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David Friedman: Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation
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Netflixable? “Monty Python: Almost the Truth” docu-series, the definitive history
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One of the benefits of the streaming era is that all these content platforms are so starved for something to show us that what might previously have been regarded as “disposable” still has value.
“Monty Python’s Flying Circus” premiered over 50 years ago, and the last movie the British troupe parked in theaters was their “Live in Aspen” old-men-performing-their-greatest-hits video in 2005. The stage hit “Spamalot,” the musical reimagination of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” dates from that same year.
Two of the writer/performers — Graham Chapman and more recently, Terry Jones — are dead. Ceased to be. Expired.
But before Jones’ death in January — long before it — there was this 2009 BBC2 series, repeated in the US on IFC. “Monty Python: Almost the Truth” does a wonderful job of telling their story, how Britain’s best and wittiest, alumni of Oxford and Cambridge, and an American…
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Classic Film Review: Is it time to renew our worship of Monty Python’s “Life of Brian?” (1979)
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Well slap me sideways and call me Jolson. I’d plum forgotten Our Lord John Cleese‘s first appearance in “Life of Brian” was in Blackface.
The decision, this past week, for British cinemas to give up showing “The Lady of Heaven,” an Islamic history lesson that bent over backwards to not offend, because of protests at the theaters by British Muslims…who hadn’t seen the bloody film, had a local Archbishop having a bit of a laugh at Islam’s “‘Life of Brian’ Moment.” And it gave me a craving to see Monty Python’s big screen masterpiece again.
The idea that the Catholic man in the big funny hat is getting at is a valid one. That in a free society, examining, critiquing and even mocking of belief systems has to be fair game. Islam doesn’t tolerate criticism. And unlike Scientology, there is no call to “Lawyer Up” in the scriptures…
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Why the Falklands Conflict happened
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in defence economics, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Falklands war
What Actually Happened Right After The Soviet Union Collapsed
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, theory of the firm, unemployment Tags: fall of communism
Cost Over-Runs in Infrastructure Projects
13 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, Public Choice, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics Tags: megaprojects
The Civil War by Julius Caesar – 2
13 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
Julius Caesar’s own account of the civil war he fought against Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey) and his successors from 49 to 45 BC is divided into three parts. I have previously summarised parts one and two. This is a summary of the third and final part.
Part 3: The great confrontation (112 sections)
1 to 6: Caesar in Italy – Pompey’s preparations
Caesar returns to Italy where he temporarily takes the title dictator in order to carry out the legal functions of the absent consuls and senate. He oversees elections in which he is elected consul for the next year, 48 BC. Caesar adjudicates legal cases, solves bankruptcy cases, officiates at the Latin religious festivals, then relinquishes the dictatorship and hurries to Brundisium.
Here he is presented with an ongoing shortage of ships. Pompey has had a whole year in which to gather forces in Greece and Asia, which Caesar…
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Ronan Cormacain: Does the Vienna Convention provide a legal off-ramp for unilaterally changing the Northern Ireland Protocol?
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The Northern Ireland Protocol is part of the Withdrawal Agreement, designed to set out the legal parameters of the withdrawal of the UK from the EU. The Government proposes to introduce legislation to unilaterally change the Protocol. On the face of it, this would appear to place the Government on the highway to a breach of international law. But are there any off-ramps which allow it to avoid this destination? This blog post examines one possible off-ramp, that this course of action is consistent with the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969.
Legal justification for unilateral amendment of the NI Protocol
The Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP stated in Parliament on17 May 2022that “we are very clear that this is legal in international law, and we will be setting out our legal position in due course.”This legal position has not yet been set out.Emily Thornberry MP, the Shadow…
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