1853 Japanese Map Of The World By Suido Nakajima
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Deception and self-deception are vital evolutionary survival strategies
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in economics of education, economics of information Tags: evolutionary psychology
Alan Dershowitz: ‘A sitting President cannot be charged with a crime’
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election
New Rule: White Shame | Real Time with @BillMaher
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David D. Friedman – Market Failure: An Argument For & Against Govt. Intervention in the Economy 2019
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights Tags: market failure
The Godfather II – Michael brings Frank Pentangeli’s brother at his trial
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Should We Fear The Next Big Solar Storm
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I now know why my parents, when I was young, rather looked down on hippies and long hair
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@IPCC_CH assessment of the cost of #globalwarming and missing 1.5C to survive @mfe_news @jamespeshaw
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Bruce Moon: Before 1840
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This illuminating article by Bruce Moon (no relation to Paul) appeared in the Northland Age last Thursday.
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It is a curious fact that there are many part-Maoris today (though certainly not all) who have remarkably good memories about their alleged sufferings since 1840, but completely blank minds about what happened to them any earlier.
It is not hard to work out why this should be.
But it is more helpful, perhaps, to assist them in remembering a bit more about their earlier days.
When Europeans first arrived in New Zealand, Maoris were an aggressive warrior race, ready to attack for the slightest reason, as Tasman found out quickly to his cost. [1]
This happened again when, just over a couple of years after Captain Cook, Marion du Fresne arrived off our shores.
While fishing innocently in calm waters, as he thought, he broke a tapu unknown to him.
His…
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Jack Simson Caird: The Supreme Court and Parliament: The Constitutional Status of Checks and Balances
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There have been two competing visions of the constitution battling it out since the Brexit referendum in 2016, which David Howarth described on this blog as the Whitehall view and the Westminster view. The Whitehall view is that the UK constitution, and the relationship between Parliament and Government in particular, is designed to allow the Government of the day to deliver its promises to the electorate. Parliament’s role is to scrutinise how those promises, as well the everyday decisions of Government, are delivered, no more no less. The relationship between Parliament and Government is a purely political one, and therefore raises no questions that are relevant to the courts. The Westminster view, I would argue, is based on the notion that the UK constitution is based on a number of constitutional principles that ensure that Parliament is ‘the senior partner’. Those principles, despite not being codified and subject to legislative…
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