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 …
Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
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
Roger Waters Rejects Facebook Offer to Use ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ – Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/roger-waters-rejects-facebook-offer-another-brick-in-the-wall-1183773/
Don McLean recuts American Pie
With acapella group Home Free
Biden hurls his defiance at China. Sorta
New at the Belmont Club. Wolf versus Woke: the new Cold War.
Green Woke vs Wolf Diplomacy
The communiqué issued on Sunday fleshed out some of the proposals that have dominated the summit and was explicit in the need to counter the rise of China. “Three years ago, China wasn’t even mentioned in the G7 communiqué,” according to an administration official who briefed reporters on its contents. “This year, there is a …
Is power self-legitimizing?
Robinson raises the question of election. An administration’s actual legitimacy may be grounded in such demonstrations of bureaucratic power as gaining the acclaim of institutions. ‘We are in power because we can enforce possession’ may be immoral but enforceable. Even assuming a candidate cheated in an election his ability to get away with it would …
Biden sounds the charge vs China but G7 horses keep ambling
Leaders of the world’s largest economies on Saturday unveiled an infrastructure plan for the developing world to compete with China’s efforts, but the democracies didn’t immediately agree on how to publicly call out Beijing, including for its forced labour practices.
Journo Who Broke 2016 Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting Found Dead
His death is being investigated as a suicide. He was 45 years old and leaves behind a wife and three children. He was described by ABC 33/40 as a dedicated family man, who “turned down an opportunity to work for one of the national networks to come to ABC 33/40, and he made that decision …
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Biden explains why he won’t hold presser with Putin
Smart move in a way. Biden wants to avoid invidious comparisons. “I always found, and I don’t mean to suggest the press should not know, but this is not a contest about who can do better in front of a press conference or try to embarrass one another,” Biden said
Biden’s 40T Woke ‘Belt and Road’
The White House said the program, presented as an alternative to China’s own global infrastructure initiative, will “help narrow the $40+ trillion infrastructure need in the developing world, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.”A senior administration official described the plan, called the “Build Back Better World” initiative, as a “bold, new global infrastructure …
The “Chinese defector”: is there an official denial?
Technical details provided by the defector, RedState is told, were given to scientists (who were not told how that information was given to the government) who then re-analyzed data from published sources in conjunction with the new data and concluded that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was engineered. And, the defector was able to confirm numerous non-public …
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Elbows are the new hands
How don’t you do. This will be classic one day.
Chinese researchers say new batch of coronaviruses found in bats
Missing link or missing linkage? The researchers said one strain, garnered from the Rhinolophus pusillus bat species, bears a particularly strong resemblance to SARS-CoV-2, though with differences on the spike protein that the viruses use to attach to cells they infect.