Steve Horwitz: The Smith Questionnaire 2019
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Cavalry, Spies and Cossacks I THE GREAT WAR Week 47
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in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I
How Argentina was defeated in their own backyard | Falklands Land Battle
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Karl du Fresne on virtue signalling, Kiri Allan, Three Waters and secret donations
18 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
This article was published today on Karl du Fresne’s blog (HERE).
Newly promoted minister Kiritapu Allan has said what a lot of people think but feel unable to say.
She lashed out in a tweet against “tokenistic” use of te reo by employees of DOC “as an attempt to show govt depts are culturally competent”. She told Stuff she encouraged the use of the Maori language, but wanted it used “with integrity”.
“You want to use te reo, you use it with integrity and use it responsibly,” Stuff quoted Allan as saying. “This isn’t a ‘everybody go out and use mahi and kaupapa’ and say you have a deep and enduring relationship with te ao Māori.”
Of course this shouldn’t apply only to DOC, where Allan was in charge before this week’s cabinet reshuffle resulted in her elevation to the justice portfolio. The same message could be directed…
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Watergate at 50: Why the ‘heroic-journalist’ myth still defines the scandal
17 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
This essay was first published at the Conversation news siteon June 14, 2022, and appears here slightly edited.
In their dogged reporting of the Watergate scandal, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernsteinuncovered the crimes that forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in August 1974.
That version of Watergate has long dominated popular understanding of the scandal, which unfolded over 26 months, beginning June 17, 1972.
It is, however, a simplistic trope that not even Watergate-era principals at the Post embraced. The newspaper’s publisher during Watergate, Katharine Graham, pointedly rejected that interpretation during a program 25 years ago at the now-defunct Newseum (the “museum of news“) in suburban Virginia.
“Sometimes, people accuse us of ‘bringing down a president,’ which of course we didn’t do, and
Nixon quits: Not the Post’s doing
shouldn’t have done,” Graham said. “The processes that caused [Nixon’s]…
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June 16, 1586: Mary I, Queen of Scots names King Felipe II of Spain as hier and successor
17 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
Felipe II (May 21, 1527 – September 13, 1598) was the son of Emperor Charles V and Isabella of Portugal. Felipe II inherited his father’s Spanish Empire and was the King of Spain from 1556, and succeeded as King of Portugal in 1580 following a dynastic crisis. Felipe II was King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.
Felipe II was also jure uxoris King of England and Ireland during his marriage to Queen Mary I of England and Ireland from 1554 until her death in 1558. He was also Duke of Milan from 1540. From 1555, he was Lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands.
Upon Mary I of England’s death, the throne went to her half-sister as Queen Elizabeth I. Felipe had no wish to sever his tie with England, and had sent a proposal of marriage to Elizabeth.
However, she delayed in…
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BDS Movement Debate | Oxford Union
17 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, West Bank
Living On Rations In The Second World War | WW2: I Was There
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Share market crashes
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in economic history, financial economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis
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