The Christchurch Call – not good news for free speech?
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Macron meets with Zuckerberg to discuss how to oppress free speech. All for our good you understand.
Note, for Ardern sycophants, the report has the tagline France takes lead.
So much for world leader Ms Ardern.
Meanwhile in NZ there a couple of interesting items.
On The Spinoff was this article about Macron’s approach to free speech. The article was by Branko Marcetic, who is an editorial assistant at Jacobin magazine and a freelance journalist who wiles away the hours writing about New Zealand and US politics.
This took my eye in particular:
Macron invited some of the country’s leading media outlets to the Élysée Palace earlier this year, where he appeared to suggest the French government needed to take a stronger hand in the news business. Expressing his worries about “the state of information and the truth”, he urged the re-establishment of “levels of confidence” and a “hierarchy…
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The Levin interviews – Friedrich Hayek 1980
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights
Branko Milanovic explains why Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist is (neo-colonial) nonsense
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in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, Marxist economics Tags: anti-market bias, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
What might be wrong with Behavioral Economics: Deirdre McCloskey
12 May 2019 1 Comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Deirdre McCloskey
Green Tyranny: Recycling
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in environmental economics, politics - USA Tags: recycling
Hitler Strikes in the West – WW2 – 037 – May 11 1940
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Spot on
11 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech
Former CIA Chief of Disguise Breaks Down 30 Spy Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED
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in movies, television
PETA and President Obama
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After President Barack Obama killed a fly during a TV interview, some media outlets contacted PETA to get their reaction. It wasn’t like somebody at PETA’s offices saw Obama kill the fly and said “OMFG!!!!”. No, several media companies actually thought that there was a story there and contacted PETA.
You can read PETA’s side of the issue here and here.
I immediately smelled a rat when I read those blogposts from PETA. It’s almost as if somebody – or a group of somebodies – is looking for anything and everything that they can use against Barack Obama and the fly-killing was just convenient. I’m guessing that if they can get PETA and other animal rights groups pissed-off enough at Obama, then they can look forward to Obama facing some kind of backlash from animal rights advocates.
But, seriously, who the fuck is going to march a picket line…
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More of the absence of an anti-fascist left
11 May 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: political correctness, regressive left
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