On Nov. 11, 1918, American ace Eddie Rickenbacker defied orders and flew over no-man’s-land. He became “the only audience for the greatest show ever presented.”
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
After expelling the charter schools, Hipkins is pressed to do better on teachers’ pay
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So who do you feel sorry for: primary school teachers who say they are are undervalued, underpaid and overworked?
Or Education Minister Chris Hipkins, who is “disappointed” teachers are going on strike, despite the government’s “strong new offer”.
Political aficionados might find some irony in the whole affair. Teachers were desperate for the Labour Party to win the Treasury benches, knowing it would be a relatively soft touch after nine years of a flinty-faced National government.
And Hipkins early in his term sought to cosy up to the teachers’ union by bending to their demand that charter schools be abolished.
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Thomas Sowell Has Some Explaining for Us:
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This is an oldie, but worth reviewing for its appropriateness for today. A fascinating interview with Thomas Sowell about “intellectuals”. Do make time to watch the whole thing, It throws a lot of light upon what is happening in our present day, how to consider what’s going on. Whats the matter with intellectuals anyway? Aren’t they smarter than the rest of us? Shouldn’t we listen to them?
So whose opinion matters? See the previous post on “Opinion.”
Show your workings: KiwiBuild, the Reserve Bank, and the Ombudsman
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The Reserve Bank is a powerful public agency, whose views receive a lot of coverage, and some respect in some quarters. The views taken by the Bank affect where interest rates are set, and thus the short-medium term path of the economy itself. They aren’t just commentators – they are players too – but they aren’t less than commentators. They use a lot of public money to undertake analysis that is supposed to underpin their commentary and decisions. It should be pretty much Open Government 101 that citizens – who pay for the analysis and are directly affected by how the Bank uses it – should be able to see that analysis. The Reserve Bank has never seen it that way. Over decades – when I was closely involved, and still now – they’ve taken the view that the Bank is different, and special, and that all…
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Streets Of Your Town / THE GO-BETWEENS Original Version (1988)
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Abdication of the German Emperor & the end of The Great War.
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With the abdication of German Emperor, his flight to the Netherlands and the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918 brought the Great War to its close.
His Imperial Majesty Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia
By October, German Emperor, Wilhelm II was at the Imperial Army headquarters in Spa, Belgium, when the uprisings in Berlin and other centres took him by surprise in late 1918. Instead of obeying their orders to begin preparations to fight the British once more, German German sailors, exhausted by four years of war, led a revolt in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven on October 29, 1918, followed by the Kiel mutiny in the first days of November.
These mutinies were the first salvos in the German Revolution of 1918-1919. When a mutiny occurred among the ranks of Emperors beloved Kaiserliche Marine, this profoundly disturbed him. Wilhelm struggled between acceptance denial and…
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Can @SenSanders explain this anomalous data?
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in economic history, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: pessimism bias
These numbers are so all over the place as to be unreliable
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in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
Stop nuisance suits by burning your bridges: make other party go to expense of trial. But solution assumes he will show up at trial and otherwise invest further in suit.
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in law and economics Tags: nuisance suits
This Last ‘Untouched’ Tribe Is Extremely Violent – North Sentinel Island
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in economics of media and culture Tags: India
The Two Ronnies. Three british classes
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