Strong #Uber critic @SenSanders uses @Uber all the time
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in applied price theory, economics of regulation, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2016 presidential election, anti-market bias, creative destruction, pessimism bias, taxi regulation
What Is the Efficient Market Hypothesis?
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BBC tries to erase Hamas’ role in ‘Great Return March’ violence
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On August 28th a filmed report titled “Bullet shatters Palestinian cyclist’s Asian Games dream” was posted on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page.
“The Asian Games continues in the Indonesian capital Jakarta until 2 September, with 18,000 athletes participating.
One Palestinian cyclist could not fulfil his dream of competing after he was shot during a Gaza strip demonstration, which has left Alaa Al-Daly with one leg. But he is determined to not let it stop him cycling.”
Together with the interviewee’s unconfirmed and unquestioned account of his story, viewers see statements from the BBC itself which once again reinforce its chosen narrative concerning the ‘Great Return March’.
“Alaa’s dream was to represent Palestine at the Asian Games. But an Israeli bullet put an end to his dream.
On 30 March, Alaa was taking part in what has been called “The Great March of Return” at…
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An Introduction to Externalities
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Did the Soviets win WW2 due to US Support?
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America’s small town in Canada
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How a cricket superstar became Pakistan’s prime minister
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Energy efficiency investments are inefficient
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A carbon tax will increase extreme poverty
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Guardian op-ed defends Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘moral stance’ against Zionism
29 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
The headline of a Guardianop-ed by Ahmad Samih Khalidi (Siding with the Palestinian struggle is not antisemitic), extracted from text, is of course a straw man, as nobody claims that merely “siding with the Palestinians” is antisemitic. Khalidi, a former adviser to both Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, has a broader goal, to defend those who object to the continued existence of a Jewish state, based on the “profound injustice” at the root of Zionism.
In an effort to legitimise his anti-Zionism, Khalididi grossly misleads by claiming that “Jewish opposition to Zionism has a long and distinguished history”. In fact, whilst there was a lively debate before Israel declared independence on the question of Zionism, today, Jewish opposition to the living, breathing state of Israel represents a minuscule, politically irrelevant fringe.
Khalidi further charges that the “insidious goal of the ‘anti-anti-Zionist’ campaign is to silence the Palestinians and their supporters”, which…
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Dumb & Dumber: Why Trying to Rely On Intermittent Wind & Solar Power Is Utterly Stupid
29 Aug 2018 1 Comment
A nine-year-old knows the sun sets and the wind stops blowing, but a cohort remain convinced that that an all RE future is upon us.
Which begs the question: which is dumber? Wind and solar power? Or those that believe they constitute meaningful power generation sources?
Norman Rogers provides a helpful analysis below for those struggling with that tricky conundrum. Rogers also has a book on the subject: Dumb Energy: A Critique of Wind and Solar Energy. And he runs a couple of websites, as well: DumbEnergy.com and ClimateViews.com.
Wind and Solar Energy: Good for Nothing
American Thinker
Norman Rogers
11 August 2018
The defenders of wind and solar claim that subsidies are a minor help to get a new industry going. These defenders counter critics with the fallacious claim that fossil fuels receive huge subsidies. Actually, the fossil fuel industry pays huge taxes.
Focusing on explicit subsidies…
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Superficial BBC reporting from Gaza recycles jaded narratives
29 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
h/t GB
Earlier this month we noted that:
“In addition to holding the remains of two Israeli soldiers killed in 2014 – Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul – the Hamas terror group is also keeping prisoner at least two Israeli civilians – Avera Mengistu and Hisham al Sayed – who have not been the topic of any BBC reporting in the three years that their imprisonment has been publicly known.”
Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today‘ programme on the morning of August 27th would therefore have been unlikely to understand what Yolande Knell was talking about when she briefly referred to “two Israelis jailed in Gaza or two soldiers’ remains”.
Presenter Justin Webb introduced that item (from 02:42:00 here) with a reference to another story about which BBC audiences had previously heard nothing: the partial closure last week of the Erez Crossing in response to…
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