Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

The progressives are hoping that the administration’s current woes are caused by misfortune and soon end. If on the other hand they are the product of policy error they will persist.

Fossil fuel punishment soon to resume. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/colonial-announces-pipeline-restart-says-normal-service-will-take-seve-rcna917

Ray Harryhausen did this already. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a36383243/russia-wants-to-clone-ancient-army/

Fossil fuel shortage hits DC

By piling on too many progressive policies once Biden created induced drag. Then with reduced power he pulled the nose up and increased the angle of attack beyond allowable limits. Conclusion: “It’s working!”

An “A” in Equity and an “F” everywhere else. What’s the average?

Memo to the One World DepartmentFrom the Aberdeen Hong Kong proving groundsRe Effect of Mark 19 Super duper shame weapon on the Communist Party of China

One of the things progressives are good at is selling good intentions, whether racial justice, climate justice, clean energy and/or Middle Eastern peace. However the path to these laudable goals wends through riots, resegregation, carbon taxes, gas shortages and renewed war in Israel. Why is that? One theory is these bad things — like the …

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But he meant well. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/us/politics/biden-israel-palestinians.html

https://www.axios.com/biden-send-envoy-israel-palestine-gaza-crisis-2115a8db-3453-41e0-a0ea-01b373b0ec68.html

Mr Biden wants to “restore credible engagement” by the Palestinians in long-stalled peace talks with Israel. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56665199

The hack on the Colonial Pipeline has caused informal gas rationing in some localities.

Researchers said China was responsible for 27% of all greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, nearly three times the amount emitted by the United States and more than the entire developed world combined. The Blaze

The cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline by the Russians no less is a reminder that old fashioned national security, fuel stockpiles and working class labor still matter in the real world. When you need them you really need them.

Plus “the black fungus”.

We live in this bizarre world where Greens are praising Chernobyl for creating an environmental garden spot; where incredibly bad job figures are signs Biden has got things right; when Russians who attack US infrastructure justify their acts as merely criminal and everyone believes the covid pandemic was caused by a Species X that no …

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‘We are just ordinary criminals’, Russian group claims as Biden seeks alternative ways to deliver fossil fuel after key pipeline is disrupted.

The voting reforms, which will also include a limit on the number of postal votes that can be handed in on behalf of others, are being justified by ministers as a way to reduce the risk of electoral fraud. Guardian