February 25, 2013 – 10:54 pm
Ikea has withdrawn meatballs from sale in 14 European countries after tests in the Czech Republic found traces of horsemeat in a batch made in Sweden. Meatballs from the same batch had been sold in many states, including the UK, France and Portugal, the retailer said. Swiss food giant Nestle meanwhile said it had found [...]
February 21, 2013 – 3:39 pm
I frequently get comments from female working friends with kids who say, “I don’t know how you combine full-time work, two young kids and blogging! What’s your secret?” It’s a juggle which involves many late nights and a sympathetic, helpful husband. I have often wondered how many balls I can simultaneously juggle, as I’m one [...]
February 20, 2013 – 7:46 pm
Anjem Choudary was secretly filmed mocking non-Muslims for working in 9-5 jobs their whole lives, and told followers that some revered Islamic figures had only ever worked one or two days a year. “The rest of the year they were busy with jihad [holy war] and things like that,” he said. “People will say, ‘Ah, [...]
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Posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Immigration, Law, Politics, Society, Welfare
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Tagged anjem choudary, Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, jihad seekers allowance, job seekers allowance, JSA
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February 19, 2013 – 9:15 am
In a his excellent The World Is Not Enough blog, Charles Richardson comments on an essay by Israeli journalist Yossi Gurvitz. Gurvitz’s essay applies the analogy of Germans expelled from the Sudetenland, Silesia, Prussia etc after 1945 to the Palestinians expelled from Israel in 1947-48. As Charles notes, it is a revealing analogy. But revealing not [...]
By Lorenzo
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Posted in History, Human/Civil rights, Immigration, Middle east, Politics, Public Policy, Religion, The Left, The Right
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Tagged Algerian Civil War, Arab Spring, Arab-Israeli conflict, Armenian Genocide, Auschwitz, Charles Richardson, Christian exodus, debt bondage, EU, Fascism, Greece, Haj Amin al Husseini, Hamidian massacres, Israel, Israeli Defence Force, Israeli Labour movement, Lebanese Civil War, Leninism, Likud, Nazism, population exchange, refugees, scapegoat, Shin Bet, Sudanese Civil Wars, Syrian civil war, the holocaust, Turkey, Yossi Gurvitz
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February 13, 2013 – 9:15 am
Not that this is a startling revelation. Growing up, I used to love vampire movies. After all, where else could you see guys hug each other, throw their head back with intense feeling then climax with their eyes rolling back in their heads? And, if you gave them this experience, they went on and shared [...]
By Lorenzo
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Posted in Art, Popular culture, Sexuality
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Tagged Anne Rice, Brad Pitt, Charlaine Harris, Corey Haim, films, Jason Patric, Joss Whedon, Keifer Sutherland, Kirsten Dunst, muppets, Nelsan Ellis, roman polanski, shonen ai, Tom Cruise, vampires
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February 12, 2013 – 9:01 pm
Pope Benedict XVI is to resign at the end of this month after nearly eight years as the head of the Catholic Church, saying he is too old to continue at the age of 85. The unexpected development – the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years – surprised governments, Vatican-watchers and even his closest [...]
February 9, 2013 – 12:44 am
People should not throw away frozen meat products in the wake of the revelations about horsemeat in Findus lasagne, the food minister had said. David Heath advised consumers to carry on eating meat unless told otherwise. The Food Standards Agency has asked UK firms to test all processed beef foods, but said it did not [...]
February 8, 2013 – 9:15 am
ADDENDA: I have added in three extra paragraphs, because I came to realise a key part of the argument, and a key relevant distinction, was missing. As economist Frank Mehrling has observed (pdf): All monetary theories (at least all those of which I am aware) build from some underlying parable about the nature of money. One [...]
By Lorenzo
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Posted in Economics, History, Law, Taxation, Wales
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Tagged Angkor Wat, Anglesey, bitcoin, Chartalism, coins, copper coins, Dror Goldberg, fiat money, gold standard, hyperinflation, legal tender, Modern Monetary Theory, monetary economics, money, property rights, silver standard, transaction utility
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February 7, 2013 – 9:30 am
Uberblogger Matt Yglesias recently posted on why an open borders policy for the US–possibly using an auction system to regulate the rate of flow–is a reasonable option, basing his claim on comparative population densities and history: But the United States ran an open borders regime throughout the 19th century and we weren’t worse off for [...]
By Lorenzo
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Posted in Economics, England, History, Immigration, Politics, Public Policy, Welfare
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, club good, jihadi, John Howard, Know nothings, nativism, pauline hanson, Robert Fogel, US republican party
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