Did the USSR Have Millionaires?
18 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: USSR
Former President Truman Discusses the Potsdam Conference
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
India/Bangladesh – The world’s worst border
18 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in International law Tags: Bangladesh, economics of borders, India, maps
Rare Star Wars 1977 Alec Guinness Interview on Parkinson Talk Show
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American Civil War Spying I
17 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
Seated: R. William Moore and Allan Pinkerton. Standing: George H. Bangs, John C. Babcock, and Augustus K. Littlefield
The problem with journalists ‘spying’ on armies continued in the American Civil War (1860–65). Up to 150 war correspondents followed the Union Army, along with photographers and artists, serving the big Northern dailies. War was being reported faster than at any time in history and in much more detail. Troop movements, plans and orders of battle were served up to a news-hungry public back home. They also became one of the Confederate Army’s main sources of information. The Washington and Baltimore newspapers were arriving on the desk of Confederate President Jefferson Davis within 24 hours of being printed, while those of New York and Philadelphia arrived a day later.
Attempts were made to limit the damage, with sometimes farcical results. On 2 August 1861, General McClellan made Washington correspondents agree not to…
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Michael Foran: Shamima Begum, the Separation of Powers, and the Common Good
17 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
The Supreme Court has come under significant criticism for its handling of the Shamima Begum case, decided on 26 February. Much has already been said in relation to the deference that the court showed to the executive, with some arguing that it was improper or even a complete abdication of the judicial role itself. This post seeks to clarify what precisely the court did and did not do in relation to the exercise of its constitutional duty to review the legality of executive action. It will suggest that the Court did not engage in any strong deference as to the nature of Begum’s rights nor to the balance to be struck between those rights and the common good. Such questions remained wholly within the purview of the Court. While the Court did pay due respect to the executive’s authority to determine and pursue the common good, this was subject…
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Is there a sunken Japanese Submarine off The Kaikoura Coast?
17 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Power Drain: Relying on Renewables? Get Ready For Mass Blackouts & Power Rationing
17 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
Hoping to be powered by sunshine and breezes is like musical chairs: the game designed to ensure that someone always misses out.
Increasing reliance on the ‘unreliables’ means, however, that hundreds of businesses and hundreds of thousands of households get to miss out.
Think wind and solar ‘powered’ Texas during its Big Freeze.
Or think South Australia (Australia’s wind and solar capital) on those dozens of occasions when the grid manager chopped power supplies to thousands – following sudden collapses in wind power output: Déjà Vu (All Over Again): Yet Another Wind Power Output Collapse Plunges 200,000 South Australian Homes into the Dark Ages
Well, with news that the Federal Government’s lavish subsidies to wind and solar will cause the early closure of a Victorian coal-fired power plant, two things follow: retail power prices will continue on their spiralling ascent; and summer-time power rationing will become the norm, not only…
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The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
17 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, transport economics Tags: Japan
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