Operation Market Garden | What went wrong at Nijmegen and Arnhem
28 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
How governments and the cult of net zero wrecked the energy market – Telegraph
27 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
The headline says it all. Despite claiming ‘The original error was not with the science of climate change’ – well, we disagree there – the article charts the real course of the current energy fiasco quite well. Climate obsession has a lot to answer for.
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Putin may be the proximate cause of this crisis, but the reason we were vulnerable was an intentional policy to crush fossil fuel investment, says The Telegraph.
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And now? Well, now, as “big oil” might say: “We just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face.”
Europe needs gas. It is pleading for gas.
Instead of flying media to gas fields to court capital, the oil and gas men are being flown to the capitals of Europe and begged to invest.
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Disappearing glaciers ‘reveal’ 50-year-old plane wreckage in the Swiss Alps – so it became snow-covered after it crashed?
27 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
Disappearing glaciers for a century or more – so why wasn’t the crashed plane visible on the surface the whole time? We’re told: ‘The bodies of the three passengers were recovered by authorities at the time, but police say they didn’t have the capabilities to remove the plane from such a remote area.’ A video about the same story says ‘the glaciers have lost half their volume in less than a century’. Did they mean less than half a century? Something seems amiss here.
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In a helicopter high above the Swiss Alps, we see climate change in action, asserts Sky News.
The glacial ice is melting at an unprecedented rate, revealing items frozen long ago.
A scar suddenly appears in the bright white snow. A crumple of silver and red.
“That’s the plane,” says our guide, Dominik Nellen, pointing.
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The Battle of Hill 60 – Lunatic Persistence in Gallipoli I THE GREAT WAR – Week 57
27 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in development economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Distant Volcanoes Collapsed Dozens of Empires
27 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of natural disasters
Rishi’s lockdown truth & killer cow attacks – The Week in 60 Minutes | SpectatorTV
27 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: British politics, economics of pandemics
Gender pay gaps
26 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, sports economics Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
5 Lessons from Sir Humphrey | Yes, Prime Minister
26 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
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