Top 10 Worst Things The Seinfeld Friends Have Done
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The Muddy Graves of Russia and Kut I THE GREAT WAR Week 91
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Offsetting behavior
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Renewables Cult Accuse Weather of Conspiring Against Grand Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
20 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
Ideologues are quick to find a conspiracy, whenever their pet belief ultimately fails. So it is with the renewables cult – accusing mother nature of dishing up “dark doldrums”, or “dunkelflaute” (as the Germans call it) – with seemingly increasing regularity.
Cloudy, calm weather is seen as a curse, and the lengthy absence of suitably strong breezes now referred to despairingly as a “wind drought”. Not long ago, only sailors and kite flyers gave a hoot about wind strength and direction.
Of course, if you subscribe to the catastrophic climate change story, it’s no great leap to believe that the weather has it in for you; particularly when you’re pinning all your power supply hopes on sunshine and breezes.
As Rafe Champion reports below, the wind and sun cult in Australia are having to recalibrate their dreamy vision about an all wind and sun powered future, thanks to an uncooperative…
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The Great Escape
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in economic history, health economics Tags: child mortality, life expectancies, The Great Escape
TRICKY & Powerful Chess Opening for Black [Works Against 1.e4 & 1.d4]”
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Nadine Strossen: How New Zealand should change hate speech laws | Q+A 2023
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Why 100% Wind & Solar 100% Guarantees Blackouts and Rocketing Power Prices
20 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
No civilised country has ever powered itself entirely with wind and solar; no country ever will. And yet the grand wind and solar ‘transition’ – being peddled by rent-seekers and crony capitalists – is still taken as an article of faith by the naïve and gullible.
What is evident is the direct and unassailable relationship between intermittent wind and solar, rocketing power prices, load shedding and, ultimately, mass blackouts.
In this piece from September last year, Isaac Orr, Mitch Rolling and John Phelan rich precisely that conclusion in relation to plans by Governor Tim Walz to permanently unhitch Minnesota from reality and reason.
The High Cost of 100 Percent Carbon-Free Electricity by 2040
American Experiment
Isaac Orr, Mitch Rolling, John Phelan
12 September 2022
The 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040 mandate proposed by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz would cost the state $313.2 billion through 2050 and lead to devastating…
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A Grim Assessment of British Fiscal Policy
20 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
I have been very pessimistic in recent years about the United Kingdom. Now, having just finished giving speeches in Bristol and London, I’m even more pessimistic.
The core problem is that the burden of government spending has expanded dramatically in recent years,
in part because of the pandemic.
But there’s been no move to undo the damage. Instead, the (supposedly) conservative governments of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have kept the spigots open.
So there’s a new spending baseline showing a permanent expansion in the fiscal burden.
And this does not even include all the additional spending that almost surely will get added because of demographic change.
Sadly, none of the experts I met with on my trip expressed much hope of reversing the nation’s fiscal decline.
Indeed, most of them have a a glum outlook. Including the ones I didn’t talk to. For instance, Fiona Bulmer authored some depressing…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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