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Month: May 2022

Cooking

Cooking for numpties and the terminally depressed

11th May 2022 Going Postal 2977 Comments

This can be cooked with fresh ingredients or cupboard staples. You need: Some butter beans (a tin or dried beans previously soaked overnight and then cooked) Tomatoes (fresh ones or a tin) Garlic: 2 cloves [more…]

Economics

In Defense of the “Two Bank” Banking Reform Proposal

11th May 2022 Patrick Barron 3303 Comments

In his recent essay for Goldmoney.com, titled Building a Better Banking System, Alasdair Macleod agrees with the Austrian view that sound money would help prevent a looming “combined currency, asset, and banking crisis”, yet challenges [more…]

20th Century

Newport Dock Disaster

10th May 2022 Going Postal 2399 Comments

Newport in South Wales sits astride the mouth of the River Usk and so its history has long been connected to maritime commerce, with wharfs recorded lining the banks of the river since the 1500s. [more…]

Economics

Gold: A use case for the modern era, Part Two

10th May 2022 Going Postal 3288 Comments

The big picture here is clear and it is essential to understand that it represents a very significant paradigm shift. Whether it is online or offline, whether it is through a mobile app, an exchange [more…]

20th Century

Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (ii)

9th May 2022 Tom Pudding 2848 Comments

Introduction From January 1943, with the commencement of American daylight bombing of German targets complementing the existing night time raids by the British Air Force, Luftwaffe superiority in the skies over Germany and its occupied [more…]

Economics

“Waste not, want not”

9th May 2022 Emile Woolf 3380 Comments

 This proverb spells out the link between waste and impoverishment. Economic Perspectives 112 highlighted the inevitability of massive waste of public money when government expenditure is not susceptible to economic calculation. ”Would I sanction this [more…]

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Samyaza Chapter 4 – May 2006.

8th May 2022 Blown Periphery 2906 Comments

Contains descriptions of sexual relations. He had never seen him so angry. Bartlett didn’t do shouting anger, but he was extremely good at cold fury. “The responsibility of Guardian angels is to watch over people [more…]

Animals

Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Forty Two

8th May 2022 Going Postal 3340 Comments

Monday Good morning people, it’s one of those days that looks better through the window. It’s lovely and sunny but when you wander down the garden there is a chilly breeze. Bozzie and the Little [more…]

20th Century

Nostalgia Album, Part Fourteen

7th May 2022 Always Worth Saying 2595 Comments

Last time, we followed my father and grandparents in their Ford 8 across the channel and down to the southwest of France via Louviers and Tours, all the way to glamorous Biarritz in the extreme [more…]

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