Stirring the possum again
01 May 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: Anzac Day, World War I
.@NZLabour abandons Blackstone’s ratio
30 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: presumption of innocence
Killer green technologies alert: downed trolley bus wires
29 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, transport economics Tags: buses, expressive voting, killer green technologies, New Zealand Greens, precautionary principle, rational rationality
A car would not swerved towards us and we would not have driven under downed trolley bus wires if it were not for this green fetish. The swerving car distracted me from noticing that the trolley bus wires were hanging low above it on a dull Wellington Day
This enormously expensive way of running public transport in Wellington is already killed bus drivers when they are out on the road putting in the polls back up to the wires. Today, we were put at risk of electrocution.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali talks about Linda Sarsour’s “hate” for her as a woman
29 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of religion, gender, politics - USA Tags: political correctness
Trailblazers: The New Zealand Story – Full Video
29 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle
#GarethMorgan wants sitting tenant laws
28 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, income redistribution, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2017 New Zealand election, offsetting behaviour, rent control, unintended consequences
Morgan wants to restrict the ability to evict tenants for reasons other than damage to the property and non-payment of rent. This includes not been able to evict a tenant on sale of the property.
We intend to change the regulations around residential tenancy law so leases make it far easier for a tenant to remain in the premises long term…
This will be achieved by restricting the conditions under which a landlord can evict a tenant to those of non-payment of rent or property damage. Sale of a property is not necessarily a legitimate reason for eviction. Tenants will be able to give 90 days notice.
That policy will make winding up of estates difficult. Houses will be have to be left vacant rather than rented while affairs are put in order. That is to name one of many flaws in a policy announced by a party that prioritises being different over been useful and right.
Source: RENTING Werner Z. Hirsch at encyclopedia of law and economics.
Union membership by sector in New Zealand
28 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
Source: The state of New Zealand Union membership in 2014, Sue Ryall and Stephen Blumenfeld.
Why hasn’t @JulieAnneGenter reintroduced @metiria’s 2009 bill on medical marijuana?
28 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: expressive voting, marijuana decriminalisation, medical marijuana decriminalisation
The case against an immigration economics and for a population economics
28 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, population economics Tags: economics of fertility, economics of immigration
Source: The case for immigration – Vox.
#livingwage movement just can’t handle the truth @LWEmployerNZ
27 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: conjecture and refutation, critical discussion, crybaby left, living wage, Twitter left
Looks like the living wage movement will not be taking up my challenge for a public debate anytime soon.
#Maori #atheists failed by @reomaori Maori Language Commission
27 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, politics - New Zealand Tags: atheism, Freedom of religion, Maori economic development, Te reo Māori
Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rule – Beige Against the Machine (HBO)
27 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - USA, television Tags: political correctness
What victory at Gallipoli could have stopped #AnzacDay #Anzacday2017
25 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: Armenian genocide, crimes against humanity, Gallipoli, war crimes trials, World War I
But for victory at Gallipoli, the Anzacs would have been the first Sergeant at Arms of a war crimes trial. By marching victorious into Constantinople, the Anzacs may have been able to prevent the purging of the Ottoman archives of evidence of complicity of specific individuals.
Today is marked by Armenians worldwide as the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. vox.com/2015/4/22/8465… http://t.co/7pqqSowW3O—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) April 24, 2015
On May 24, 1915, the Allied Powers jointly issued a statement explicitly charging for the first time ever another government of committing `a crime against humanity’. The Allied Governments announce publicly that they will hold personally responsible all members of the Ottoman Government, as well as those of their agents who are implicated in the Armenian massacres.
Ottoman military and high-ranking politicians were transferred to the Crown Colony of Malta on board of the SS Princess Ena and the SS HMS Benbow by the British forces, starting in 1919. These war criminals were eventually returned to Constantinople in 1921 in exchange for 22 British hostages held by the government in Ankara.
Australian and New Zealand participation in the invasion of the Ottoman Empire as a by-product set the legal and moral infrastructure for the Nuremberg trials: governments would hold others to account for crimes against humanity and genocide.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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