Best Lectures on Marxism, Ever
21 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, liberalism, Marxist economics
I’m a huge fan of the late great George Walsh. I heard this giant of intellectual history speak live in 1989, and I’ve listened to his recorded lectures over and over. 267 more words
Best Lectures on Marxism, Ever
Best of David Mitchell as William Shakespeare from Series 1 | Upstart Crow
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Six North Sea oil and gas fields to be fired up amid Cabinet row over net zero
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Unwelcome ‘Treat’: Tonnes of Toxic Solar Panels Already Headed For A Landfill Near You
20 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
Solar panels were meant to be all sunshine and lollipops, with nothing but tingly virtuous feelings for their subsidised owners. With an effective economic lifespan of little more than a decade – after 12 years in service their output is nothing like their original capacity and at the 15-year mark, it becomes a pointless fraction, especially if they’re not cleaned on a very regular basis. Which is the reason why millions of panels are already being crushed and dumped in landfills, with millions more to follow.
Got a landfill in your neighbourhood? Well it’s probably time to do some homework and what is being dumped there.
Solar panels are a veritable toxic cocktail of gallium arsenide, tellurium, silver, crystalline silicon, lead, cadmium and other heavy metals. Ground up and dumped in their millions into landfills, it’s not difficult to imagine the effect on water supplies, the environment and human health…
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History of the Kingdom of Greece
20 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
The Kingdom of Greece was established in 1832 and was the successor state to the First Hellenic Republic. It was internationally recognised by the Treaty of Constantinople, where Greece also secured its full independence from the Ottoman Empire after nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule.
Background
The Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantine Empire, which ruled most of the Eastern Mediterranean region for over 1100 years, had been fatally weakened since the sacking of Constantinople by the Latin Crusaders in 1204.
The Ottomans captured Constantinople with ease in 1453 and advanced southwards into the Balkan peninsula capturing Athens in 1458. The Greeks held out in the Peloponnese until 1460, and the Venetians and Genoese clung to some of the islands, but by 1500 most of the plains and islands of Greece were in Ottoman hands. While in contrast, the mountains and highlands of Greece were largely untouched, and…
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Bad Public Transit in the Third World
20 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
There’s sometimes a stereotype that in poor countries with low car ownership, alternatives to the car are flourishing. I saw a post on Mastodon making this premise, and pointed out already in comments that this is not really true. This is a more detailed version of what I said in 500 characters. In short, in most of the third world, non-car transportation is bad, and nearly all ridership (on jitneys and buses) is out of poverty, as is most walking. While car ownership is low, the elites who do own cars dominate local affairs, and therefore cities are car-dominated and not at all walkable, even as 90%+ of the population does not own a car.
What’s more, the developing countries that do manage to build good public transportation don’t stay developing for long. The same development model of Japan, the East Asian Tigers, and now China has built both…
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German electricity to be rationed as EVs and heat pumps threaten collapse of local power grids
20 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
The real winners of Net Zero: China’s cheap EVs will swamp Europe’s car market
20 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
When will the Tories realise that Net Zero is a foolish fantasy?-Ross Clark
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: Oil giant blames windfall tax as it cuts hundreds of jobs and investment
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Talking Poverty With Chris Arnade
20 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty
Chris Arnade is the storied author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America. He’s also a very cool guy. Last October, we “debated” poverty for the Acton Institute, though it was really more of an… 78 more words
Talking Poverty With Chris Arnade
Rise and Fall of the Modern Warming Spike
19 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
The first graph appeared in the IPCC 1990 First Assessment Report (FAR) credited to H.H.Lamb, first director of CRU-UEA. The second graph was featured in 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) the famous hockey stick credited to M. Mann.
A previous post Rise and Fall of CAGW described the process that began with Hansen’s flashy Senate testimony in 1988, later supported by Santer’s flashy paper in 1996. This post traces a second iteration that ensued following Michael Mann’s production of the infamous Climate Hockey Stick graph in 1998. The image at the top comes from the 2001 IPCC TAR (Third Assessment Report) signifying the immediate embrace of this alarmist tool by consensus climatists. The message of the graph was to assert a spike in modern warming unprecedented in the last 1000 years. This claim of a “Modern Warming Spike” required a flat temperature profile throughout the Middle Ages (since 1000…
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