Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

Surviving ‘tactical interrogation’ or a ‘hostile interview’ with the secret police of an authoritarian regime is tough. A lot of people claim “torture doesn’t work”. But if it didn’t at least to a degree it would not be the devil’s temptation that it is.

U.S. stocks rose on Friday, with technology shares leading the way, as weaker-than-expected jobs growth eased concerns about the economy running too hot and causing an early tightening of monetary policy. Reuters

Nigeria said it suspended Twitter indefinitely on Friday, two days after the company removed a Tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari for violating the site’s rules, according to BBC.

Eureka. Zhou Yusen, a decorated military scientist for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who worked alongside the Wuhan Institute of Virology as well as US scientists, filed a patent on Feb. 24 2020, according to documents obtained by The Australian. The patent — lodged by the “Institute of Military Medicine, Academy of Military Sciences of …

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“We must be prepared for an intense showdown between China and the U.S.,” Hu wrote in a Thursday op-ed for the Global Times. “The number of China’s nuclear warheads must reach the quantity that makes U.S. elites shiver should they entertain the idea of engaging in a military confrontation with China.”

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Redfield said the threats began in March after he said he believed the virus had originated in a lab.

Roger Simon describes our Communists. The biggest difference between “their Communists” and “our Communists” is theirs have come up through the school of hard knocks. To lose inside the Chinese Communist party is to forfeit your freedom, your family’s and possibly your life.

There are three possible values to a boolean variable: true, false and null. Null is the value when you don’t know, or before you know. It is the prediscovery content of an entry.

Australia’s plan to convert French nuclear attack subs to conventional propulsion hits the rocks.

[Denver Nuggets] team was inside the hotel when the crowd pursued the man they believed to be Ngo to the concierge desk of the hotel, then pulled on the doors and confronted Nines staff in a chaotic scene. Protesters had previously tackled and punched the man, who fled to the hotel for safety.

People who quote Kristian Andersen emails on covid should know his current views on the subject of lab origin. He doesn’t think it’s probable.

Its next goal could be to run at a consistent temperature for a week, according to Li Miao, director of the physics department of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen.

Israel’s opposition leader says he has succeeded in forming a coalition to end the rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest serving leader.

Titled ‘Io Sono’ (Italian for “I am”), the 67-year-old artist’s sculpture is “immaterial,” meaning that the sculpture does not actually exist.

The 80-page tome, titled ‘Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward which will be published by National Geographic Books, consists of quotes and speeches Fauci has made over the years

At least the cards are on the table. This is what the Left wants. There they said it. Where do you stand in a world of zero sum games with no self-deception, no euphemisms to hide behind?

this is the kind of thing that could obliterate the faith of millions. The last global disaster, the financial crisis of 2008, smashed people’s trust in the institutions of capitalism, in the myths of free trade and the New Economy, and eventually in the elites who ran both American political parties.

Man was infected in April proving cross species contamination can happen. “This infection is an accidental cross-species transmission,” its statement said. “The risk of large-scale transmission is low.”

The probability is that Biden ordered the lab origin probe not because he wanted to, but in order to anticipate developments and revelations he felt were inevitable. Joe doesn’t desire confrontation with China, he seeks to soften it by getting control of the fact-finding process.