WORLDbytes – After Fukushima: The Fear Factor | Atomic Insights
Why is anyone who suggests that the radiation news may not be all bad, immediately labeled an apologist for the nuke industry? Hint: it has something to do with Marxism. See below the video for my answer. In the video, Ms. Fox tells how many of the journalists that she regularly serves from the Science [...]
Yakuza link undoes TV’s Shimada | The Japan Times Online
During the news conference announcing his retirement, Shimada said he hadn’t considered Watanabe a gangster and continued exchanges with him via phone and email. Although that doesn’t violate any laws and Shimada didn’t have any business relationship with the gangster, he offered to immediately retire to take responsibility, the agency said. “I did not feel [...]
The gift that keeps on giving…Your taxes!
Speaking of taxes, Trooper Thomson writes on the Englands Freedome, Souldiers Rights blog: PFI: Labour’s gift to future generations The Telegraph reports: “Official figures show that, under Private Finance Initiative [PFI] schemes, British taxpayers are committed to pay £229 billion for new hospitals, schools and other projects with a capital value of just £56 billion. Several contracts [...]
More on education
Image via Wikipedia I wrote earlier about whether universities have a future, a subject I’m obviously interested in as a I work in one. After writing that entry, I came across these quotes from the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises on the subject of education and schooling: It is often asserted that the poor man’s [...]
