GDP per capita of the countries of South America Ranking (1990-2019)
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in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics Tags: The Great Fact
Shiiiiiit: The how and why of swearing in TV series
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This is a guest post by Monika Bednarek, a linguist who has extensively analyzed US TV series. She is the author of Language and Television Series and the editor of Creating Dialogue for TV, a collection of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters. She has created a companion website at www.syd-tv.com and tweets at @corpusling.
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The use of swear words in US TV series attracts a lot of attention. There are those who revel in creating mash-ups of swearing, and there are those who monitor and oppose swearing (like the Parents Television Council). Rules by the Federal Communications Commission restrict the broadcasting of profane and indecent speech to the evening and night and forbid obscene speech. But these rules don’t apply to subscription-based television such as cable or streaming services. Elsewhere I’ve looked at how frequent swearing is, but here I want to approach swearing…
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THE NEW ZEALAND BANDWAGON PHENOMENON
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“Totally Inappropriate”, proclaimed Auckland Mayor Phil Goff about Shane Jones’s response to an Indian migrant’s complaint about the Immigration Department. But inappropriate to what? Phil didn’t tell us, instead preferring to jump on the current fashionable bandwagon, led by the Indian community, with the wearingly wrong cries of racism and hate speech.
It transpired the Department had declined the migrant’s application to bring in an arranged marriage potential bride he’d never met. The Department declined permission for the excellent reason that the rules required it to do so. Specifically, couples must have lived together for a year before their migration applications can be considered.
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Roger D. Congleton on democracy coming through revolution
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom
Sea level rise: what’s the worst case?
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by Judith Curry
Draft of article to be submitted for journal publication.
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Former Jewel Thief Reviews Famous Heist Movies, From ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ to ‘Heat’”
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in economics of crime, law and economics, movies, television
Why Fighter Jets Can Be Too Unstable
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in defence economics, transport economics
No Discretion: On Royal Assent and the Governor General
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Introduction
Under our system of responsible government, the Sovereign or Governor General exercises his prerogative powers on the advice of the Crown-in-Council, and his constitutional powers relating to Parliament on the advice of the Prime Minister alone. Responsible government means that “Ministers of the Crown are responsible for acts of the Crown” and responsible to the House of Commons.[1] The Sovereign or Governor General acts as a neutral figure and remains above partisan politics. The Prime Minister is the Governor General’s principle constitutional advisor, and while his government commands the confidence of the House, the Governor General must carry out the Prime Minister’s advice. Under no circumstances can the Leader of the Opposition, the leader of the third opposition party, or any other government or opposition backbencher offer legitimate, binding constitutional advice to the Governor General.
The Crown-in-Parliament (Tidridge 2011, 63)
We must also situation this constitutional relationship between…
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The Armistice (11:00AM / 11th day / 11th month / 1918 )
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Armistice – But Peace? I THE GREAT WAR Week 225
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
What It Was Like To Be a Trench Soldier in WWI
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Nordhaus on tipping points
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in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, international economic law, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmists
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