A Place to Stand

     This is to prove some ideas I have about the fall of the Conservative Party in Scotland (and thus of the apparent fall in support for market freedom so long as there was no other cred...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/scottis-tories-unpopular-because-of.html

Mike Haseler has written on his blog of the reasons why the global warming fraud grew. I think this is interesting enough to put up a long answer but that it must be long enough to post here as ...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/cagw-not-scientific-but-political-issue.html

  I have recently been going through the articles of Matt Ridley on his blog and I am impressed. Here are some of the best or at least the ones that, as a libertarian technophile, I thought m...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/matt-ridleys-articles.html

  This is the government's recent new "Longitude Prize" of £10 million to solve the world's greatest problems. Clearly it is neither a Longitude Prize nor an X-Prize, nor a serious attempt to...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-worlds-greatest-problems-solved.html

   Much of the alleged warming trend has been proven a fraud caused by government pseudo-scientists faking their numbers.    Which, in turn, means that all other figures from government ...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/proven-global-warming-caused-by.html

     I saw this today regarding India's decision to stop Greenpeace using money raised in developed countries to act to prevent development in India. The Indian government last week banned...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/greenpeace-and-other-ecofascist.html

   Dowsing works. It has been practiced since the 15th C , with what clients say is success. There are thousands of reputable people who have no doubt it works. After WW2 the officer in ch...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/why-dowsing-works.html

   I have, on a number of occasions, written about how we could have inexpensive, comfortable, high tech housing any time, and anywhere if we were allowed.    In particular I have written ...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/more-on-modular-housing.html

     This is JK Rowling's comments on independence. As Mike Haseler pointed out the original was formatted to make it difficult to read, which is a shame because it is about as serious and ...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/jk-rowling-independence-is-not-just-for.html

    Maurice Saatchi has produced for the Centre For Policy Studies (and implicitly for the Tory Party) a proposal to abolish Corporation Tax for all but the 10% of largest companies and als...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/saatchis-cutting-corporation-tax-idea.html

    I HAVE LIFTED THIS BODILY FROM NEXT BIG FUTURE. I ACHIEVING IT - THE POSSIBILITY OF GETTING A WORKING FUSION DEVICE - WOULD BE WONDERFUL. ODDS ARE IT WILL TAKE LONGER AND COST MORE, A...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/lpp-fusion-crowdfunding-at-73500-of.html

British spaceport in 5 years (coastal region possibly in Scotland)  I privately understand Lossiemouth is the Scottish option. Campbelltown airport is actually pretty advanced but the flightpat...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/reading.html

   In 2009 I wrote a Big Engineering article on offering a prize for an open source computer programme able to function as a judge on matters of international law - a relatively simple field ...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/big-engineering-68-constitution-on.html

   "According to recent data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control CDC), people who eat organic and "natural" foods are eight times as likely as the rest of the population to be att...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/look-whose-lying-to-scare-us.html

    A few days ago I was, as one is, involved in a pub discussion over Proportional Representation V the First Past the Post (FPTP) electoral system. So this is a list of the arguments for ...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/fptp-v-pr.html

  My latest ThinkScotland article is up - thoughts on libertarian constitutional arrangements for Scotland as opposed to the SNP who would clearly like a Constitution which cements in place t...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-scottish-constitution-should-liberate.html

    The well known "environmentalist" Mother Jones site has put up a thread saying that the 1970s global cooling scare never happened.     They are, of course, wholly dishonest.  ...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/everybody-working-for-mother-jones-is.html

   Some years ago I did a number of articles about bringing water to deserts. In particular was this one on Greening of Central Asia.  Taking the 650 cubic km a year from Lake Baikal and, in...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/big-engineering-67-greening-western.html

   Isaac Asimov wrote this in 1964. I did a look at a similar 1900 article once before . My comments in italics: By ISAAC ASIMOV     The New York World's Fair of 1964 is dedicated to ...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/visit-to-worlds-fair-2014.html

  Most of this lobbying is harmless or slightly beneficial. Cutting business taxes on sector X would create growth because cutting taxes always does (as long as you don’t put them up in ano...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/precis-of-eco-parasitism.html

   The above estimable Christopher Booker has a Telegraph blog discussing Anne Glover's criticism of the EU making scientific policy on political rather than scientific grounds.    In it...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/when-christopher-booker-takes-you-as.html

  There is an interesting discussion going on former member Mike Haseler's blog about UKIP in Scotland. Scottish chair Misty Thackeray has a long post and I have replied. This is something tha...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/scottish-ukip.html

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   I disagreed with the estimable, but sometimes wrong, EU Referendum on the subject of illegal immigration from, mainly, Africa. Dr Richard North there said that deaths of boat people trying...

http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-do-you-solve-problem-like-africa.html

 This is a motion Glasgow branch agreed to put into our AGM. However the AGM has been postponed for the far indeterminate future, something I regret as among other things, issues of importance...

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