1945 Naval Bombardment of Japan
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
July 19, 1553: Lady Mary Tudor is declared Queen ending Lady Jane Grey’s brief tenure on the throne.
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Lady Jane Grey (1536 or 1537 – February 12, 1554), later known as Lady Jane Dudley (after her marriage) and as the “Nine Days’ Queen”, was an English noblewoman who claimed the throne of England and Ireland from July 10 until July 19, 1553.
Jane was the great granddaughter of Henry VII through his younger daughter Mary, and was a first cousin once removed of Edward VI. She had an excellent humanist education and a reputation as one of the most learned young women of her day. In May 1553, she married Lord Guildford Dudley, a younger son of Edward’s chief minister John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.
In June 1553, Edward VI wrote his will, nominating Jane and her male heirs as successors to the Crown, in part because his half-sister Mary was Catholic, while Jane was a committed Protestant and would support the reformed Church of England, whose foundation…
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Energy Transition: Germans Revolt Against Wind Power – As Power Prices Spiral Out of Control
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Germany’s wind power transition has hit the wall: rural Germans are sick and tired of the noise, ruined landscapes and communities; and Germans of all persuasions are fed up with Europe’s highest power prices, which continue to rocket as a consequence of its so-called ‘renewable energy transition’ aka the ‘Energiewende’.
Thanks to massive subsidies and mandated targets, over 30,000 of these things have been speared into every last corner of Deutschland. But, as the team from Jo Nova explain below, the backlash against industrial wind power has brought the German wind industry to a shuddering halt.
Wind power “headed for disaster” in Germany
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Jo Nova
1 July 2021
Is this the future of wind all over the world?
The salad days of wind power in Germany are over. Bad news is rolling in from several directions. Twenty years of hope-n-subsidies has run aground. Profits are grinding down…
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Philosophical Liberalism (Bertrand Russell 1945)
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Philosophical Liberalism
By Bertrand Russell
(This is Chapter XII of Part I, Book Three of History of Western Philosophy, 1945. Transcribed by Jeffrey Ketland, May 2005.)
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The rise of liberalism, in politics and philosophy, provides material for the study of a very general and very important question, namely: What has been the general influence of political and social circumstances upon the thoughts of eminent and original thinkers, and, conversely, what has been the influence of these men upon subsequent political and social developments?
Two opposite errors, both common are to be guarded against. On the one hand, men who are more familiar with books than with affairs are apt to over-estimate the influence of philosophers. When they see some political party proclaiming itself inspired by So-and-so’s teaching, they think its actions are attributable to So-and-So, whereas, not infrequently, the philosopher is only acclaimed because he recommends what the…
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Thomas Sowell “Discrimination and Disparities” Interview on Critical Race Theory
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Glenn C. Loury – Preserving the American Project: The Bias Narrative vs. the Development Narrative
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
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