The Style Council – Walls Come Tumbling Down – Countdown Australia – 1985
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Why the V1 Flying Bomb couldn’t turn the tide of WW2
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No exclusion crisis in Scotland
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The Economics of War, Part II: Trade Restrictions Make a Nation Weaker
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Way back in 2010, I explained that Paul Krugman was wrong to think that wars were good for the economy.
Indeed, he was more wrong than usual. The additional spending for the military isn’t “stimulus,” so his usual Keynesian argument was misguided.
Moreover, he didn’t seem to understand that wars also destroy existing wealth.
Today we are going to look at how war can teach us another economic lesson.
The United States and other major nations have responded to Russia’s assault on Ukraine by imposing trade restrictions with Russia.
If protectionists are correct, these steps (effectively imposing an extreme Russian version of Biden’s “buy America” policy) should strengthen Putin.
Yet that’s obviously not the purpose of the sanctions.
Instead, officials from western nations understand that these trade barriers will weaken Russia’s economy.
By the way, this isn’t the only example of nations using trade restrictions to hurt their enemies.
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No End Date For Coal & Nuclear: Gas Crunch Drives Germany’s Grand Renewables Backflip
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A month or so back, Germany’s green-infested government was talking up the end of coal and nuclear power plants; the last phase in its ‘inevitable’ transition to an all wind and sun-powered future, as the wind and sun cult would have it.
Well. That was then, this is now.
With the squeeze on Russian gas and oil supplies, Germany (among others) has been forced to meet reality, head-on.
All of a sudden, even its rabid the anti-fossil fuel Greens have backflipped on plans to kill off Germany’s nuclear and coal-fired plants. Necessity being, in this case, the mother of ideological reinvention.
Tsvetana Paraskova tells the tale of how reality is driving Germany’s grand renewables reversal.
Germany Goes For Full Energy Policy Overhaul Amid Ukraine Crisis
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Tsvetana Paraskova
28 February 2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine upended the energy policy of Germany. In just a few days since Putin…
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Still No Global Warming, Cool February Land and Sea
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The post below updates the UAH record of air temperatures over land and ocean. But as an overview consider how recent rapid cooling has now completely overcome the warming from the last 3 El Ninos (1998, 2010 and 2016). The UAH record shows that the effects of the last one were gone as of April 2021, again in November, 2021 and now in January and February 2022. (UAH baseline is now 1991-2020).
For reference I added an overlay of CO2 annual concentrations as measured at Mauna Loa. While temperatures fluctuated up and down ending flat, CO2 went up steadily by ~55 ppm, a 15% increase.
Furthermore, going back to previous warmings prior to the satellite record shows that the entire rise of 0.8C since 1947 is due to oceanic, not human activity.
The animation is an update of a previous analysis from Dr. Murry Salby. These graphs use Hadcrut4 and…
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Accession of Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. Part IV.
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William of Orange invaded England on November 5, 1688 in an action known as the Glorious Revolution, which ultimately deposed King James II-VII of England, Scotland and Ireland. Forbidden by James to pay Mary a projected visit in the spring of 1687, Anne corresponded with her and was aware of the plans to invade.
On the advice of the Churchills, Anne refused to side with James after William landed and instead wrote to William on November 18, declaring her approval of his action. Churchill abandoned the unpopular King James on the 24th. Prince George followed suit that night, and in the evening of the following day James issued orders to place Sarah Churchill under house arrest at St James’s Palace.
Anne and Sarah fled from Whitehall by a back staircase, putting themselves under the care of Bishop Compton. They spent one night in his house, and subsequently arrived at Nottingham…
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March 11, 1708: Queen Anne becomes last British monarch to veto legislation.
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The Scottish Militia Bill 1708 (known formerly as the Scotch Militia Bill) was a bill that was passed by the House of Commons and House of Lords of the Parliament of Great Britain in early 1708.
However, on March 11, 1708, Queen Anne of Great Britain and Ireland, withheld Royal Assent on the advice of her ministers for fear that the proposed militia would be disloyal. This was due to the sudden appearance of a Franco-Jacobite invasion fleet en route to Scotland which gave ministers second thoughts, at the last minute, about allowing it to reach the statute books. It was the last occasion on which the Royal Veto was used.
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The bill’s long title was “An Act for settling the Militia of that Part of Great Britain called Scotland”. Its object was to arm the Scottish militia, which had not been recreated at the Restoration. This happened…
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Hitch and skeptics
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