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Support our Chair @Sebastarian's campaign for the Republican nomination for President by voting for him in 2028 in your state's presidential primary!
With Seb, we can achieve liberty and justice for all by following America's founding principles and through sound policies.
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FYI: If you've ever wanted to discuss "Mozart Was a Red" with Roderick Long, here's your chance.
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Your Shakun and Marcott chart is fake, Jim. They were caught making up their data.
climateaudit.org/2013/03/16/…
Just about everything you post is fake, a chart you made yourself, and/or verifiable propaganda.
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“La combinación del poder económico y político en las mismas manos es una receta segura para la tiranía”.
- Milton Friedman -
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John Mearsheimer on Israel's nukes:
youtube.com/watch?v=V6R0vLYT…
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🧵The @WSJ headline: buy, borrow, die is $5.4 trillion*
* By $5.4T we mean $1.6T**
** By $1.6T we mean $500B***
*** By $500B, we mean somewhat less because part of that is margin trading/business debt.
What matters for tax avoidance is what's used for personal consumption.
Nice piece by @margotpatrick in @WSJ. The $5.4T sounds like a lot of buy-borrow-die. But it’s:
- global
- all wealth levels
- credit lines (actual borrowing: ~$1.6T)
US share: ~$0.5T, vs. $23T in unrealized gains for the top 1% alone. It’s real but small, just as we found. 🧵
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Vital to understand that buy-borrow-die is nowhere near as big or prevalent as is being portrayed, and is not a justification for wealth taxation. ⬇️
The evidence is that the "buy, borrow, die" loophole is probably big enough to justify a targeted loophole closer, but nowhere near big enough to justify broad-based wealth or mark-to-market taxes.
Three weeks ago, I explored this is more depth: georgecallas.substack.com/p/…
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President Trump: “If you think about it, we’re all on the ballot. Because they can take all of these incredible tax cuts...All of this stuff can evaporate.”
TEXAS, VOTE REPUBLICAN!
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Looking specifically at methane (CH₄) in the red-highlighted band near the infrared spectrum (10µm range), we observe its absorption band in a relatively narrow wavelength region. However, when comparing this with the absorption by water vapor (H₂O) in the cyan-highlighted area, it becomes clear that water vapor absorbs broadly and significantly across much of the infrared spectrum, including wavelengths that overlap methane's absorption range. This means that water vapor is already absorbing the majority of the radiation in these overlapping bands.
Water vapor is vastly more abundant in the atmosphere than methane, with concentrations measured in parts per thousand (ppt) compared to methane's parts per billion (ppb). The dominance of water vapor absorption effectively "saturates" these overlapping wavelengths, leaving methane with only a minimal additional impact on the total radiative transfer. This is why slight increases in methane concentrations due to anthropogenic or natural emissions have a negligible effect on Earth's energy balance compared to the influence of water vapor.
In summary, while methane is a greenhouse gas on a per-molecule basis, its contribution is limited by the overwhelming and already saturated absorption capabilities of water vapor in the same regions of the spectrum.
Breaking News: The Trump administration is set to relax rules restricting the emission of methane, a gas considered to be a “super pollutant.” nyti.ms/3WP2qaG
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Looking specifically at methane (CH₄) in the red-highlighted band near the infrared spectrum (10µm range), we observe its absorption band in a relatively narrow wavelength region. However, when comparing this with the absorption by water vapor (H₂O) in the cyan-highlighted area, it becomes clear that water vapor absorbs broadly and significantly across much of the infrared spectrum, including wavelengths that overlap methane's absorption range. This means that water vapor is already absorbing the majority of the radiation in these overlapping bands.
Water vapor is vastly more abundant in the atmosphere than methane, with concentrations measured in parts per thousand (ppt) compared to methane's parts per billion (ppb). The dominance of water vapor absorption effectively "saturates" these overlapping wavelengths, leaving methane with only a minimal additional impact on the total radiative transfer. This is why slight increases in methane concentrations due to anthropogenic or natural emissions have a negligible effect on Earth's energy balance compared to the influence of water vapor.
In summary, while methane is a greenhouse gas on a per-molecule basis, its contribution is limited by the overwhelming and already saturated absorption capabilities of water vapor in the same regions of the spectrum.
Looking specifically at methane (CH₄) in the red-highlighted band near the infrared spectrum (10µm range), we observe its absorption band in a relatively narrow wavelength region. However, when comparing this with the absorption by water vapor (H₂O) in the cyan-highlighted area, it becomes clear that water vapor absorbs broadly and significantly across much of the infrared spectrum, including wavelengths that overlap methane's absorption range. This means that water vapor is already absorbing the majority of the radiation in these overlapping bands.
Water vapor is vastly more abundant in the atmosphere than methane, with concentrations measured in parts per thousand (ppt) compared to methane's parts per billion (ppb). The dominance of water vapor absorption effectively "saturates" these overlapping wavelengths, leaving methane with only a minimal additional impact on the total radiative transfer. This is why slight increases in methane concentrations due to anthropogenic or natural emissions have a negligible effect on Earth's energy balance compared to the influence of water vapor.
In summary, while methane is a greenhouse gas on a per-molecule basis, its contribution is limited by the overwhelming and already saturated absorption capabilities of water vapor in the same regions of the spectrum.
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Medicare for All doesn’t compete with your insurance. It replaces it.
Under RAND’s analysis, private health insurance spending goes to zero.
No choice, long wait times, a bigger tax bill, and Washington in charge of your care.
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¿Para qué necesitará la Seguridad Social un préstamo si, según nos dicen, tiene una hucha gigantesca de la que echar mano?
🔴 El Gobierno aprueba un préstamo de 10.000 millones de euros para pagar las pensiones y la extra antes de Navidad.
➡️ Se trata de un acuerdo por el que se autoriza la concesión de un préstamo del Estado a la Tesorería General de la Seguridad Social larazon.es/economia/gobierno…
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Billionaires in California are spending $333 million of their own money to protect their own money, which parasites like @SenSanders think belongs to him.
Then he has the audacity to call it obscene. He is right that something here is obscene. It is that the men who hold up the world and produce the values that turned old fairy tales into ordinary life must now buy advertising for permission to keep what they made.
Bernie cannot accept the simplest fact in economics. That money exists because they created something people chose to buy. It arrived through consent, one transaction at a time. Every dollar he has ever directed came the other way, taken by force from people who had no say.
So notice the structure of his accusation. He names three things nobody is at war with, homelessness, cancer, child poverty, then charges murder against anyone who declines to fund his version of the cure. Refusing to hand over your property becomes wanting children dead.
That is the oldest move in politics. Invent a victim, assign the guilt, collect the money.
The men in his crosshairs built the labs, the drugs, the supply chains and the wealth that pays for every charity he has ever cited. He has built nothing, and spent 35 years explaining why that makes him the moral one.
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Why don’t communists and Marxists all get together and grow their own food?
Oh, that’s right. They’re too busy protesting, whining and living off the taxpayer.
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So the "peace talks" are just a cover for the business negotiations
