“Now that the stimulus has barely dented the unemployment rate, and with government spending and deficits soaring, it’s natural to turn to Hayek. He championed four important ideas worth thinking about in these troubled times.”
Worth A Look
Climate Change: The IPCC In The Age of Speculation
“It’s astonishing how many facts are believed real when they were only speculation in a media report or in an IPCC Report. Too often it’s a ‘fact’ supporting a false or misleading headline or assumption.”
Millions Spent on Aboriginal Lobby, Not People: Communities must re-evaluate spending priorities
Five national Aboriginal organizations have received about $239 million in taxpayer money.
The Bad Economics Behind Stimulus Spending
“Economist John Taylor (Stanford University) says government intervention caused the market meltdown of 2008 and that “short-run government spending” has only made matters worse. He dismisses the theory that stimulus spending can jump-start an economy as an “old-fashioned” Keynesian illusion.”
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Free to Fly Wants Friendly Skies for Unvaccinated Canadians
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More Repression Does Not Save More COVID-19 Sick
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Stop The War On Poor Families
But radical greens want to reduce access to the fuels that produce 93% of our energy. They want to increase energy costs. They call this “energy conservation”. I call it “economic enslavement” and worse.
This Is Ludicrous
Commissions across the country, each operating on their own codes but upon similar premise, have fallen into disrepute of late because of cases they’ve taken on, dealing with freedom of speech. There are growing demands to clip the extraordinary powers of commissions to stray into adjudication of constitutionally protected rights and laws within the Criminal Code.
Free Trade Breakdown
Establishing significantly freer trade would help the world combat its biggest problems. For a low cost, we could improve education, make the poorest people richer and help everybody become better able to tackle the future.
Gang Green
But now the environmental movement has morphed into the most authoritarian philosophy in America. The most glaring example of course is the multitrillion-dollar cap-and-trade anti-global warming scheme that would mandate an entire restructuring of our industrial economy. The latest rage among the more radical environmental groups is to encourage the government to monitor and ration every individual’s carbon footprint — how much you eat, drive, fly, heat, air condition, throw away and so on.
The Death of a Nation
It is one thing to support a people that is oppressed by an authoritarian government and Tibetans are actually in danger of losing their culture. But it is more disturbing when people choose to break up nation-states because they refuse to share their wealth, for linguistic or ethnic reasons.
Suddenly Being Green Is Not Cool Any More
“There is a direct correlation between how people perceive the economy and the importance they place on the environment. When times are tough people resent paying more to salve their conscience.”
Oil Sands Get Nod From U.S. Anti-Poverty Group
“We favour any and every energy source,” he said in an interview. “We do not believe in this artificial game that the radicals play of pitting the so-called bad energy versus good energy. All energy, when prices are as high as they are, which is such a critical resource and the lifeblood of a nation’s economy and the survival of people, is good energy as far as we are concerned.”
A New Challenge, But The Same Old Mistakes
In the Enron case, as Mr. Surowiecki observed, “it was as if all the lessons that the scandals of 19th century had taught us had to be learned all over again.” In our manic haste to save the planet, it looks now as though these lessons will need to be learned yet again.
“I Was Worse Than A Child Abuser”
So rather than try to shut me up, bully and vilify, why don’t they engage in an honest discussion about the science? I’ll tell you why. Because the theory of global warming is crumbling round their ears. For the past decade now, world temperatures have been static or slightly declining – and that’s according to the IPCC. I don’t remember their silly models predicting that 10 years ago.