Proving the Big Bang and beyond with Planck
02 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture
BRYCE EDWARDS: The astonishing Government suppression of Nash’s email
01 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
- Dr Bryce Edwards writes –
It’s truly astonishing the way that the Government has been able to suppress evidence of business donors gaining special access to Cabinet information.
Now that Stuart Nash has been fired from Cabinet for leaking sensitive information to individuals who funded his election campaign, the focus has shifted to why this information was kept from the public back in 2021. It turns out that the Prime Minister’s Office knew Nash had given privileged information to donors. Furthermore, the PM’s Office played a central role in preventing that information from being released to a journalist who specifically asked for it, and should have received it, under the provision of the Official Information Act.
The Nash scandal is now far wider than the ex-minister, and there are fundamental questions about the role of the Government in allegedly covering up the misuse of public office for vested interests. Labour…
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Twin blows dent confidence in ministerial ranks, so will they affect morale among party faithful?
01 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
Is the government imploding?
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has had to sack one of his more effective (and likeable) ministers, while another (from the Green Party) has insulted many of the adult population.
For his part, Hipkins had appeared to be shaping up well since he took over the top job. Furthermore, he has been succeeding in turning around Labour’s plunging poll ratings.
But now with the Nash disaster and the Davidson insult, alongside the nationwide strikes of teachers, plus the cost-of-living crisis, it may take something of a political miracle to recover.
Stuart Nash was already on a final warning, when Stuffrevealed he had emailed business figures, including donors, detailing private Cabinet discussions. Hipkins said the most recent scandal was “inexcusable” and this incident alone would have seen Nash sacked.
He described the call as “black and white”, but he was still “gutted” to see Nash go.
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Germany planned for a short war. What went wrong?
01 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I
No Sense/No Shame: Grand ‘Green’ Energy Transition Built On Gross Hypocrisy
31 Mar 2023 Leave a comment
Logic and reason don’t register with the wind and sun cult, nor does empathy or compassion. Happy to wreck your community by carpeting it with an endless sea of solar panels and spearing hundreds of bird-munching monsters into your backyard, it’s all care and no responsibility for these characters.
Overlooking the real environmental destruction caused by wind and solar is essential when you’re on a grand neo-Marxist economic reset. Practiced cognitive dissonance, or ‘double-think’ as Orwell called it.
John Robson singles out Greta Thunberg for a little attention on that score, thanks to her recent arrest for protesting against the wind turbines that are destroying the lives and livelihoods of the nomadic Sami reindeer herders of the frozen Arctic north.
Nooooo, not Rudolph
Climate Discussion Nexus
John Robson
8 March 2023
It would be easy to make fun of Greta Thunberg for joining a protest against a wind farm that…
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The fact checker who didn’t even look into the claim he was fact checking
31 Mar 2023 1 Comment
The title of this Newsweek fact check caught my attention:
Fact check: Did Greta Thunberg Delete Claim That Humanity Will End by 2023?
As most of you would probably already know, Thunberg posted a tweet in 2018 with a short-term prediction and deleted it when its end date approached. This resulted in quite some reactions, putting forward that this deletion again shows that her alarmist claims are weak and unsubstantiated, therefor not worth paying attention to.
The Newsweek fact check starts by listing three examples criticizing the deletion of the tweet, stating that they all refer to screenshots of this deleted tweet, but no such screenshot was provided in the fact check, only the text of the tweet was given:
A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.
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David Friedman – The Problem with Externality Arguments – March 2023
31 Mar 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, global warming, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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