Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

More than 90 countries are using Covid shots from China. Experts say recent infections in those places should serve as a cautionary tale in the global effort to fight the disease.

Who wants to bet the alternatives to Anom that people are switching to were also developed by the US government? In other news:

Maybe the only way to survive the book-burning, witch-hunting Woke era is to go into stealth mode, to adjust your visibility such that you are only visible to trust networks. In the end we may see the revival of hermitages and monasteries as places of survival.

Soon, a Black Lives Matter advocate asked, of all things, whether I would stand for the American flag. To provide context for my decision, I shared a story. As a toddler, I’d seen my mother take a call from the Department of Defense announcing that her fighter-pilot brother had been killed. Honoring her grief, I’d …

Continue reading “No one will be spared”

Pro-Palestinian activists were swarming the social media comments sections of Ben & Jerry’s to demand the company boycott Israel. In response, Ben & Jerry’s appears to have indeed entered a boycott — of social media itself.

The virus was not the cause for global catastrophe. It was the response to the virus that crippled the global economy and our society. The disease was not nearly as damaging as the “cure” for the disease.

Limit charging your electric cars or turning on the lights due to power grid shortages

New at the Belmont Club. How Biden got Green handicapped in a second cold war he didn’t see coming.

There are a number of observable trends in oil supplies and by extension prices, presently. I am going to discuss one of them in this article. A lack of capital investment in finding new supplies of oil and gas. A favorite analogy of mine comes to mind, the ship is nearing the dock. In nautical …

Continue reading “The big empty”

The rogue state has almost doubled its fleet sailing under other countries’ flags to 123 in the past year, letting China smuggle in up to a million barrels of oil per day – or two-thirds of the UK’s daily use. A ‘ghost armada’ of sanctions-busting tankers carrying black-market oil to China is bankrolling Iran’s secret …

Continue reading “A ‘ghost armada’ of tankers carrying black-market oil to China is bankrolling Iran’s secret nuclear program”

“It took more than a decade for the truth to come out.” The accident and a subsequent cover-up have renewed relevance as scientists search for the origins of Covid-19. … In April and May 1979, at least 66 people died after airborne anthrax bacteria emerged from a military lab in the Soviet Union. But leading …

Continue reading “Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story”

US Roman Catholic bishops agreed on Friday to draft a statement on the meaning of holy communion which could potentially be used to deny the sacred rite to President Joe Biden because of his position on abortion.

The truce is over. Raise your hands, everyone who knew it wouldn’t last.

Was it a golden apple

Dang. We counted on the only adults in the room to think for us. How did they get it so wrong?

According to local media, Hong Kong police on Thursday conducted a raid on the office of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, where they seized reporting materials. Five executives have been arrested, including editor-in-chief Ryan Law, for alleged collusion and suspected contravention of the national security law in relation to articles published allegedly calling for sanctions to …

Continue reading “The last illusions vanish”

Averting climate change could turn on whether the solar-panel industry can become less dependent on Xinjiang and still keep up supply of a vital raw material.

If Joe had just cleaned Putin’s clock he wouldn’t have been so testy. Biden probably read Vladimir the riot act and either the Russian leader: sat in stony silence shrugged flatly refused laughed The probability he said “By gum you’re right Joe” is low.