Destination Destruction: Australia’s Wind & Solar Policy A National Suicide Pact
29 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
Australia’s energy policy is a self-inflicted calamity driven by an obsession with intermittent wind and solar. Only a complete collapse of the grid will cause those who pretend to govern us to get a grip. But, thankfully, a complete ‘system black’ is on the cards this coming summer.
The Federal Energy Minister, Angus Taylor has been reduced to waffling about ‘green’ hydrogen and has been otherwise co-opted by rent-seekers, merrily profiting at the expense of every productive industry, business and household.
With a Federal election looming – against the backdrop of an unfolding power supply and pricing disaster – you might expect Taylor and Scott Morrison, his PM, to start advancing the case for nuclear power in this country. But these characters sound more like spin doctors for the wind and solar industries than champions of industry, business and trade. Neither of them is game to use the ‘N’ word…
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Socialism Humor
29 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
I want people to understand the intellectual and empirical case against socialism, as summarized in my three-part series (Part I, Part II, and Part III).
But I also recognize that most people aren’t that excited about nerdy economic-themed articles.
Which is why I also use satire as a weapon against collectivism. And updating our collection of collectivism humor is the focus of today’s column.
Our first item combines economic issues such as tax rates and redistribution with basic notions of fairness (properly defined).
Our second item points out how socialists are generally huge hypocrites.
Once they accumulate some money, they magically decide that their knee-jerk policy of “tax the rich” somehow only applies to the people who have even more than they do.
Needless to say, they almost never voluntarily give away their money, either to government or directly to poor people.
Our third bit of…
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Forgotten History-The Filthy Thirteen
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With the passing this week of George Kennedy known from the movie the Dirty dozen, I was wondering if the movie was based on real characters.
The book written by E M Nathanson and the movie were loosely based on a unit called “the Filthy Thirteen”
The Filthy Thirteen was the name given to the 1st Demolition Section of the Regimental Headquarters Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, of the United States Army, which fought in the European campaign in World War II.
The Demolition Section was assigned and trained to demolish enemy targets behind the lines. They were ordered to secure or destroy the bridges over the Douve River during the Normandy Invasion of Europe in June 1944. Half were either killed, wounded or captured, but they accomplished their mission. They also participated in the capture of Carentan. The group was airdropped for the mission by aircraft…
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Operation Fork-the invasion of Iceland
29 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
The Axis powers and mainly Germany, Italy and Japan were not the only occupying forces during WWII. The allies also occupied some nations.
After the defiant battles that the Icelandic football team fought at the 21st century battlefield of the EURO 2016 Championships I decided to have a look at this country’s history during WWII.
Iceland didn’t want any part of the Second World War. It was all tiny and defenseless and alone out there in the north Atlantic. Most of the hundred thousand people on the island were peaceful farming and fishing families. They had no army; only a few dozen hastily-trained police officers.
For the most part, the Icelandic arsenal was limited to a few pistols and rifles and a couple of antique cannons. But that was the point: ever since the end of the First World War, when they had been granted their autonomy under Danish rule…
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Jordan Peterson – What Kind Of Job Fits Your IQ
29 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: personality psychology
The Schlieffen Plan – And Why It Failed I THE GREAT WAR Special feature
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Burial and Identification Of The Dead in WW1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Environmentalists Would Buy the Land They Want to Protect, If Government Allowed It
28 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
This is a very good video, but there is one vital point missing. Environmentalist groups are phenomenally wealthy and could easily lobby to get the laws mentioned by the PERC representative changed. So the million dollar question is: “Why don’t they?”
PHOTO CREDIT: View along Copper Creek Trail, Kings Canyon National Park, California By Tom Hilton – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62647902
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