Was the Glorious Revolution a Dutch Conquest?
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in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of religion, international economics, International law, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Glorious revolution, Protestant Reformation
Cancer referrals fall to record low due to #COVID19
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in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Joe Rogan Experience #1520 – Dr. Debra Soh
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Could an Old Vaccine Help Against #COVID19?
09 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics, vaccines
Tanks, but no Tanks – Hitler Hinders the Blitzkrieg – WW2 – 102 – August 8, 1941
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Favourite election meme on @JacindaArdern
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in politics - New Zealand Tags: 2020 New Zealand election
Another useful idiot
08 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape, useful idiots
2/3rd of the $12b fossil fuel subsidies are road user charges refunds @Greens @GreenpeaceAP
08 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia
Kamala Harris attacks sleepy @JoeBiden’s record on race
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in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, affirmative action, racial discrimination
Burying The Truth: No Sensible Environmentalist Supports Filthy Wind & Solar
08 Aug 2020 1 Comment
Even after 30 years and endless subsidies, no country is powering itself exclusively with the wind and solar; no country ever will.
But that doesn’t stop our political betters berating us, should we ever beg the question about the purported logic of throwing endless $trillions at something that’s already proven to be an abject failure.
Whatever your views on climate change (the apparently existential threat formerly known as ‘global warming’), the idea that trying to run modern, civil societies on sunshine and breezes might somehow prevent it is, of course, a complete nonsense.
One environmentalist who called it out, loud and early, was Michael Shellenberger. As a long-time advocate for reliable, affordable and safe nuclear energy, and critic of intermittent renewables – calling wind and solar worse than useless – Michael combines common sense, logic and reason, in an era when those attributes have become scarce commodities.
Shellenberger delivered…
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The Non-Partisan Movement We Need: Anti-Authoritarianism
08 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
Political/ideological debates have a lot of moving parts, and there are a lot of timely issues to address. Given the marginal impact of anything we do in this sphere (e.g. voting, sharing a blog post on Twitter, or being a solitary voter in a vast sea of the entire 6200 people in this country), it’s only natural that we have to economize on information and argument and that results. We can’t help but deplete the intellectual commons.
What are some low cost ways to improve the quality?
- Value Intellectual humility.
- Devalue the sort of behavior that makes things worse.
It bears repeating: value intellectual humility. It’s not easy. I’m as drawn the confident claims as you are. I’ve got a lot of smart people in my bubble and when they boldly declare something, I tend to believe them. But the “I honestly don’t know” posts deserve more attention…
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Gee, Julie Ann – you had us thinking one city would be hogging half the investment earmarked for cycleways
08 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
Latest from the Beehive –
It looked (at first blush) like Christchurch would gobble up around half the money earmarked by the government for projects to get us on our bikes.
Julie Anne Genter, Associate Minister of Transport and a Green with a fondness for two-wheeled, pedal-driven transport, today banged out two press statements.
One of these, headed Green light for Te Awa River Ride in $220m nationwide cycleways investment, triggered the Point of Order Trough Monitor.
We quickly established that just a few of those $220 million are actually being invested in the Te Awa Ride.
The second statement was headed Six major ‘shovel-ready’ cycleways funded in Christchurch.
No figure was mentioned in the heading, but big bucks were bandied in the text of the statement.
Genter advised that six major cycle routes will be completed in Christchurch thanks to funding from the Government’s investment in shovel-ready infrastructure…
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.@ChiefSciAdvisor cites the Trots at @JustSpeak! What rubbish evidence sourcing on a serious issue @nzdrug @familyfirstnz @whiskymead @emilymenkes
08 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand
Modern human populations only moved out of Africa 50,000-55,000 years ago! @GreenpeaceAP @Greens
08 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, property rights Tags: Aboriginal land rights, political correctness, racism discrimination, rational ignorance, regressive left
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