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Mozart on Monday

Bryn Terfel – Don Giovanni

RealClearScience – The Looming Rare Earths Train Wreck

RealClearScience – The Looming Rare Earths Train Wreck.

An article to cheer us all up:

China controls 95% of the world’s rare earths. They have cut back exports by 40%. The USA’s massive subsidies towards “green” technologies which rely heavily on rare earths, means that in their attempts to reduce reliance on petroleum and gas, they are heading for a huge train wreck with China directing the rails over a possible cliff…

Housing Benefit Cap

Am I missing something here?

The Labour Luvvies claim that the cap (£21,000 for a four bedroom house??) will force people on housing benefit who presently pay more than the proposed caps, in Central London for example, to have to move out.

Ignoring my initial knee-jerk response, of, So what?, surely market forces will cause the landlords to lower rental levels to whatever is payable under the housing benefit system, rather than sit with empty properties.

Or is it the landlords who are stirring up all these protests?

Don’t you forget it.

Flowers are happy things.
P. G. Wodehouse

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

Autumn Morning (Dimineatsa toamna)

These were taken from the balcony outside my office, except the little cottage which has appeared ouside my bedroom window as the leaves thin out.

It was a misty morning until the autumn sun burned off the mist.

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Keep them handy in case the (grand)children come to visit today 🙂

Why was the skeleton afraid to cross the road?
It had no guts…

How do witches keep their hair in place while flying?
With scare spray…
Continue reading “Trick or treat”