In 1994 a cache of what appeared to be old films were found in metal drums in the basement of a building in Blackburn, England, that was scheduled for demolition. An amateur local historian who had been asked to take a look at them discovered that they were a long-lost collection of Edwardian-era films made by the Mitchell & Kenyon film company. Tonight, we take look at a bit of that footage, restored by the British Film Institute, showing a tram-top POV of the streets of Belfast in 1901.
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"We now live in a world where deflation has become public enemy number one. In this current economic environment, governments seek a condition of perpetual inflation in order to maintain the illusion of prosperity in the developed world. But in reality, deflation is the free-market approach to rectify a secular period of superfluous money supply growth, debt accumulation and asset price appreciation."
"The plain truth is that the current debt levels, carried by the developed world, demand a period of massive deleveraging to occur. A healthy and cathartic period of deflation is needed; where asset prices fall, money supply shrinks and debt levels are reduced to a level that can be supported by the free market. This is the only viable answer for various nations struggling with solvency.
However, the return journey from rampant inflation and asset bubbles always carries insolvency and defaults along for the ride. Defaulting on debt is deflationary in nature and restructuring your liabilities is the only choice when you owe more money than you can pay back.
The prevalent idea among heads of state and central banks is that a country can borrow and print more money in order to eliminate the problems caused by too much debt and inflation. But more inflation can never be the cure for rising prices and piling on more debt can't solve a condition of insolvency. "
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-pento/deflation-isnt-the-enemy_b_1542278.html
Patterico has a piece up about the fact that Brett Kimberlin's Wikipedia entry has been removed.
On the discussion page, one of Wikipedia's editors justified it's removal:
(emph. mine)
The Wikipedia editor later had an email exchange with Patterico in which he said --
Read Patterico's post, including portions of the email exchange, here.
Creepy climate nut is creepy: "You just need a pair of pliers... It is a $2 solution."
Oooh, Mr. Smartypants:
h/t
EBD, the "Mr. Smartypants" link has the SDA link in front of your desired linkage, although it's workable. :(
[Thanks, Marc. Fixed now -- EBD]
re: path of a projectile. It seems to me that snipers have figured that out already, with practicle solutions!
It's happened again:
http://patterico.com/2012/05/27/breaking-bogus-call-sends-police-to-erick-ericksons-house/
More of the same, but different.
"AUSTRALIA is poised to be the world's fastest growing industrialized nation over the next four decades, with a rate of population growth higher even than India."
Perhaps old Hans is barking up the wrong tree.
U.N. Agenda 21.1 ???
You are now free to move about the planet...not!
oren:
It isn't ok to copy and paste an entire article from another site nor company, in this case "The National Post"
Outline from the source or copy a part / a few sentences of it to pique the reader's interest, and then link to the story, and not the misspelled Google search that brought you to that end. The Google part isn't really a part of that search either.
new = ok = oren. PLEASE: If you don't like it in Toronto, go back home to Tehran. I gladly prefer "Winston" from the "Spirit of Man" blog over you. I even prefer the vacuous Tehrangeles yuppies on that American reality show over you.
Some more historic photography.
Russia in color - 1909-1912
The Beeb reports on a huge Saudi public green space on the banks of the Wadi Hanifah, just south of Riyadh; where women can secretly let their hair out and down (_scandalous!_) with their lovers (_outrageous!_) without harassment from the Wahabbi-Orwellian "Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice" religious police.
'Don't know whether anyone east of Flin Flon's heard this yet, but...
Ex-radio-talk-show-host, ex-Liberal-&-Alberta-Party-MLA realizes sky's blue, water's wet, and there's three centre-left parties:
"'We need a good, honest, adult conversation about whether there is a place or a purpose for the Alberta Party in Alison Redford’s Alberta,' [Dave Taylor] wrote on his personal website.
"'Don’t get me wrong. I like the positive attitude reflected in the Alberta Party’s forward-looking values. It’s just that the Alberta Party’s values are now the Redford PC government’s values. They stand for everything we stand for — and they’re in power. Who needs us?'"
Geraldo to Monckton: You're smoking crack
Thatcher adviser claims 17 red flags on Obama's birth certificate
http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/geraldo-to-monckton-youre-smoking-crack/
Cross-posted on yesterday's "steenkin' sparky cars" thread...
Japan's Mazda bets future on internal combustion engine:
"We can provide hybrid-level fuel economy and carbon emissions levels in the CX-5 without the weight and the cost..." - Jeff Guyton, Chief executive, Mazda Europe.
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
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"National Weather Service director reportedly steps down amid $44M misappropriation probe"
"SILVER SPRING, Md. – National Weather Service director Jack Hayes has stepped down amid an investigation into claims his organization misappropriated almost $44 million of taxpayers' money, msnbc.com reported late Sunday.
According to the report, Hayes vacated his position Friday, following the release of an audit report concerning nine contracts worth a maximum of $1.6 billion that provided incentives for good work."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/28/national-weather-service-director-reportedly-steps-down-mid-44m/
for a vast repository of photos of all eras dating back to the Civil War and before, http://www.shorpy.com/
Yeah Geraldo's broken nose, theres one for posterity.
Still a schmenk, after all these years.
∞ ≠ ø >
Speaking of UN Agenda 21
"House to examine plan for United Nations to regulate the Internet"
The Hill, via drudge.
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/229653-house-to-examine-plan-to-let-un-regulate-internet
UN regulate the internet.
You mean like sucessfull clusterf*&ks such as "Oil For Food"," the "CO2 Fraud", and "Iranian Nuclear Enrichment"?
Yeah, we're all for more of that.
eastern paul, you got that right!
"The once big Johnnie Walker market has already shrunk and now accounts for less than one percent of the group's 10 billion pound annual turnover."
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"European firms plan for Greek unrest and euro exit"
"British electrical retailer Dixons (DXNS.L) has spent the last few weeks stockpiling security shutters to protect its nearly 100 stores across Greece in case of riot.
The planning, says Dixons chief Sebastian James, may look alarmist but it's good to be prepared.
Company bosses around Europe agree. As the financial crisis in Greece worsens, companies are getting ready for everything from social unrest to a complete meltdown of the financial system.
Those preparations include sweeping cash out of Greece every night, cutting debts, weeding out badly paying customers and readying for a switch to a new Greek drachma if the country is forced to abandon the euro."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/28/uk-europe-greece-contingency-idUKBRE84R0AH20120528
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
"Turning off lights and tap water when they’re not being used is an easy change for people to begin thinking about, he said,".
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"Solar car pulled by hand 450 km denied access to Parliament Hill"
"A man who pulled a solar car by hand from Toronto to Ottawa over the month of May reached Parliament Hill to share the message behind his journey Monday, only to be denied access.
During his roughly 450 km trek, Marcelo da Luz pulled the solar car he helped build in 1999 to challenge people to change one of their habits for 28 days and make it more environmentally friendly.
“I’m not trying to tell people what to do,” said da Luz. “I’m just asking them to think about their habits and how they affect the environment, pick one and try to make a change.”
http://metronews.ca/news/ottawa/240702/solar-car-pulled-by-hand-450-km-denied-access-to-parliament-hill/
re. EBD @10:05 -
Twitter link.
Red-Green Busted:
"Another once-promising Canadian solar power company is about to disappear from the public markets."
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"Day4 Energy to cease public trading"
"Another once-promising Canadian solar power company is about to disappear from the public markets.
Day4 Energy Inc. DFE-T of Burnaby, B.C., said Monday it will sell itself to senior managers in exchange for the assumption of debt, and it will apply to delist its stock from the Toronto Stock Exchange."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/day4-energy-to-cease-public-trading/article2445419/
"a Postmedia News analysis revealed".
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"Win or lose, running for the Tories means you never need EI
Kelly McParland: 35 of the 141 Tory candidates who lost at the polls received jobs in places such as the Prime Minister’s Office, a Postmedia News analysis revealed"
(NP)
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"Postmedia chopping Sunday papers in Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton, newsroom jobs in Montreal, Ottawa and elsewhere, ponders more paywalls, trying to sell Toronto HQ, blames internet commoditization of news for putting Canada's biggest newspaper publisher in red"
http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/
Moonbat's AGW goes to Dante's Hell for the metaphor: "inferno".
Quote: "and with that the 2008 Climate Change Act goes up in smoke."
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"Britain's climate change policy is going up in smoke"
"Coal and gas emissions targets have been abandoned, by sleight of hand, to the inferno of the energy bill"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/28/energy-policy-up-in-smoke
One word. Haunting