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Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
The coming crisis
New at the Belmont Club. How Biden got Green handicapped in a second cold war he didn’t see coming.
The big empty
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 …
A ‘ghost armada’ of tankers carrying black-market oil to China is bankrolling Iran’s secret nuclear program
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 …
Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story
“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 …
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Questions raised about Biden the Catholic
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.
Air raid sirens over Israel
The truce is over. Raise your hands, everyone who knew it wouldn’t last.
The apple of discord splits Green warriors
Was it a golden apple
A legacy of ashes
Dang. We counted on the only adults in the room to think for us. How did they get it so wrong?
The last illusions vanish
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 …
The Green is Red paradox
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.
Reading the summit body language
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.
How leftist politics became religion
If religion gives meaning to the lives of the faithful, there are a lot more Americans now who lack that meaning than there used to be, and they’re concentrated on the left side of the political spectrum. It’s not difficult to imagine these people seeking the kind of meaning that religion would otherwise have provided …
Bad luck
Heavy weather ahead
Despite the soothing assurances that the global rule based ship is better than ever it is clearly taking in water. All the happy talk about Climate Change can’t conceal the fact that China has run up the Jolly Mao Roger and Russia has not been brought to bay. The globalist ship is in trouble. Leave …
Just suppose
U.S. President Joe Biden asked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday how he would feel if someone carried out a ransomware attack on Russian oil pipelines … While saying he had not made any threats to Putin in their talks, which a senior U.S. official said had lasted about three hours, Biden said he had …
“Would you rather that your children were literate, numerate, or curious?” Pick one, and why?
He’s not Cornpop
Gas Is So Scarce in Europe That Coal Is Making a Comeback – Bloomberg
Europe is so short of natural gas that the continent — usually seen as the poster child for the global fight against emissions — is turning to coal to meet electricity demand that is now back to pre-pandemic levels.
Nuclear Operator Warns U.S. of Imminent Radiological Threat in China – PJ Media
Nothing to worry about says Biden. The French operator just needs help. https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/06/15/french-nuclear-operator-warns-u-s-of-imminent-radiological-threat-at-chinese-nuclear-plant-n1454703