Why didn’t Germany invade the Netherlands in World War One?
02 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I, World War II
Fight for $15? $25? $40?
01 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
An amazing case of expressive politics and political rhetoric. I’m not so sure the campaign would have worked if it said fight to double the minimum wage rather than fight for 15
Remember the “Fight for $15”? It’s a 10-year-old movement to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. While there hasn’t been any increase in the federal minimum wage since the movement began in 2012, plenty of states and localities have done so.
I won’t rehash the entire debate on the minimum wage here, but I will point you to this post from Joy on large minimum wage changes, and here are several other posts on this blog on the same topic. But lately I have seen an increasing call for even larger minimum wage increases, well beyond $15.
A prominent recent call for a higher wage comes from the SEIU, the second largest labor union in the nation. They are calling for a $25 minimum wage in Chicago, where the legal minimum wage just recently crossed $15 last year. Again, without getting into the detailed debates about…
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Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy
01 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
Since we are currently in Advent time, I reckon it’s safe to start talking about Christmas again.
My all-time favourite Christmas song is Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby and David Bowie. my all-time favourite Christmas song. It’s hard to believe that they recorded it 45 years ago. It’s not just a song about the yuletide festivities and presents and the birth of Christ, but it is foremost a song of hope for a peaceful planet.
The duet was one of Crosby’s final recordings before his death in October 1977.
Following the special’s broadcast during the 1977 holiday season, “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy” went unavailable for many years. It was eventually released as a single by RCA Records in November 1982 and was a commercial success, peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart. It was Crosby’s final popular hit. It became one of the best-selling…
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Busting The Big Lie: Vesta’s CEO Admits Wind Power Ain’t Cheap & Never Will Be
01 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
As big lies go, the claim that wind power is cheap was a whopper that was bound to come a cropper. What wasn’t expected is that one of the world’s biggest profiteers from the great wind power fraud, Danish turbine maker Vestas would be the one to lift the lid.
Now they tell us: Wind power giant says it was a mistake to say renewables would only get cheaper
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Jo Nova
9 November 2022
For years they told us that the green transition would deliver cheap energy, and that if we just subsidized them enough, prices would keep falling. The promise of free energy on the horizon led whole nations (stupidly) to believe that closing coal plants was viable. But now that damage is done, suddenly the Vestas chief admits that telling people that wind can only get cheaper “was a mistake”.
“Vestas CEO says industry went too…
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Five Genetic Diseases that Plague Royalty
01 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture
Nuremberg Trials
30 Nov 2022 Leave a comment
November 20 marked the 77th anniversary of the trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) committed suicide and was never brought to trial. Although the legal justifications for the trials and their procedural innovations were controversial at the time, the Nuremberg trials are now regarded as a milestone toward the establishment of a permanent international court, and an important precedent for dealing with later instances of genocide and other crimes against humanity.
The best-known of the Nuremberg trials…
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Subsidised Suicide: Wind & Solar Power Chaos Driving Britain’s Rocketing Power Prices
30 Nov 2022 Leave a comment
Britain’s power consumers are paying a heavy price for its maniacal obsession with intermittent wind and solar. Trashing its coal-fired power fleet and failing to keep up its nuclear plants now looks positively suicidal.
However, of late, the MSM has been dishing up an alternative reality, peddling a line that power prices would be a pittance if only we’d thrown even more subsidies, even sooner, at unreliable wind and solar; with that failure meaning that we lost an inevitable opportunity to enjoy loads more ‘free’ electricity harnessed from mother nature.
Paul Homewood tackles an effort to run that very meme, by renewables cheer squad, Britain’s BBC.
Would We Be Better Off Now, If We Had More Renewables?
Not A Lot of People Know That
Paul Homewood
6 November 2022
For a change, a slightly more objective analysis of our energy policy from the BBC:
It covers some of the…
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During a brief window in 1950-51, children could get the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab—a kit allowing them to make nuclear reactions at home using ACTUAL RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL. It was removed from shelves in 1951.
30 Nov 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: atomic energy
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