The Great War
Published on 14 Jun 2018The French have cracked the German radio code on the Western Front and use their advantage for a counterattack at Matz. The already hastily planed German attack during Operation Gneisenau is called off after just 4 days. Meanwhile Austria-Hungary plans another offensive in Italy and German and Ottoman forces fight each other in Georgia.
June 15, 2018
The French Counter Attack At Matz I THE GREAT WAR Week 203
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Looking at US farm subsidy claims
On Twitter, Chris Auld, an economics professor at the University of Victoria explains why Canadian journalists should stop using the $22 billion figure for US farm subsidies to justify Canada’s unjustifiable supply management regime:
It's been widely reported that the U.S. subsidizes dairy farms $22B per year, or 71% of revenues. Which seems… large. That figure comes from a report paid for by the Dairy Farmers of Canada by a small consulting firm. (https://t.co/2v4xkOZRBU). 1/5 pic.twitter.com/chMnPeRMZx
— Chris Auld (@Chris_Auld) June 12, 2018
If we follow their source to pg 111 of the cited USDA document, we find what they're counting as the $225B of "agricultural subsidies" includes absolutely everything in the USDA's budget! More than half goes to SNAP ("food stamps") and other anti-poverty programs. 2/5 pic.twitter.com/tPhR3Qtb6d
— Chris Auld (@Chris_Auld) June 12, 2018
And much of the remainder, including programs like food safety, the forest service, and research, are not agricultural subsidies, either. See pages 210-211 here: https://t.co/BBmjD41AWZ 3/5
— Chris Auld (@Chris_Auld) June 12, 2018
Some of what's left is subsidies, but the report just takes 10.54% of the total as allocated to dairy since that's the percentage of dairy in U.S. agriculture. What most people would think of as actual "dairy subsidies," direct or indirect payments to dairy farmers, 4/5
— Chris Auld (@Chris_Auld) June 12, 2018
are a trivial fraction of the staggering sums claimed in this report. And if we calculated Canadian "dairy subsidies" in the same silly manner, we'd wind up with similarly vast sums. This figure is rubbish and journalists in particular should stop repeating it. 5/5 pic.twitter.com/Hg0M3vpOuB
— Chris Auld (@Chris_Auld) June 12, 2018
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JM’s Toy Stories – Legoland Vault
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Published on 26 Apr 2015
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QotD: Churchill on Montgomery
There was a brief firestorm in Britain when a photograph appeared in the press of Montgomery and Gen. Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, the commander of the Afrika Korps and the highest-ranking German captured at Alamein. After his capture Thoma was brought to the Eighth Army command post, where Montgomery accorded him the respect of one honorable professional soldier to another. The two dined that night, and the photograph of the two generals led Brendan Bracken to send Churchill a memo criticizing Montgomery’s naïveté and noting that it created a bad impression with the public. Churchill merely commented: “I sympathize with Gen. von Thoma. Defeated, humiliated, in captivity, and,” after pausing for effect, “dinner with General Montgomery.”
Carlo d’Este, Warlord: A life of Winston Churchill at war, 1874-1945, 2008.
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