The Problem With Political Correctness
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in liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Ike anticipated holocaust denial
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
Nikita Khrushchev – The Man Behind the Missile Crisis
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in defence economics, economic history, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Russia
The Truth About Space Debris
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in defence economics, transport economics Tags: space
Why Depression Isn’t Just a Chemical Imbalance
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in health economics Tags: economics of mental illness
How could Turkmenistan be ranked below North Korea?
26 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, industrial organisation, politics - USA, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: free speech, Freedom of the press
Some inconvenient truths for peace activists and #BDS
26 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, West Bank
Lost in Transmission: Colossal Cost of Connecting Remote Wind & Solar
26 Apr 2019 2 Comments
RE rent seekers aren’t satisfied with $trillions in wind and solar subsidies, now they want $trillions for power grids to the middle of nowhere.
The Australian wind industry has a habit of spearing its turbines way beyond the back of beyond. Increasingly remote wind farm locations require serious upgrades to transmission infrastructure, adding hundreds of $millions to transmission costs, that would have otherwise been avoided, had Australia simply stuck with conventional generators and not squandered $60,000,000,000 in subsidies to intermittent wind and solar.
As any first-year physics student will tell you, transmitting electricity over distances results in a mathematically predictable loss of the power transmitted, over any given distance. The greater the distance, the greater the absolute loss.
Just like the value of prime real estate, the most beneficial situation for generating capacity is all about location, location, location.
In the main, conventional generators are sited close enough to…
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More Animal Farm Arrests in Southern Australia
26 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Almost thirty animal rights hoodlums have been arrested in connection with activities they conducted at Queensland, Australia animal farms in which, according to the Brisbane Times, some of the criminals trespassed on private property and chained themselves to farm equipment or even stole animals too.
Last Tuesday, police charged 11 people on 18 charges, including unlawfully entering farming land (trespass) and drug offences.
Another eight have also been charged with entering farming land (trespass) after the latest arrests.
The total 19 accused offenders, six men and 13 women, were due to appear in the Warwick Magistrates Court on various dates during the next several weeks.
Eight more people have been charged after protesters allegedly entered the Lemontree Feedlot at Millmerran, 82 kilometres south-west of Toowoomba, and took pictures of cattle on March 23.
This on top of animal rights thugs conducting mass harassment of animal farms that took place…
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