Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

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

Bad luck I guess. Widespread shortages and production snags are driving prices higher for many everyday items, as an uneven economic reopening leaves Americans facing the unfamiliar risk of inflation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/10/economy-inflation-prices/

New at the Belmont Club. Evidence that Gain of Function lab experiments may have accidentally released super pathogens could haunt humanity’s relationship to technology.

“The burden brought by radiation at Chernobyl is less severe than the benefits reaped from humans leaving the area,” explains plant biochemistry expert Stuart Thompson, who adds that the zone “supports more life than before.” After being described as the end of mankind, now it’s a pity it wasn’t.

Are you sure this is the right road?

The New York Times fears the Chinese narrative, which they see projected through methods copied directly from the Western media. Beijing is using its clout to suppress Western ‘conspiracy theories”. As the MSM ran roughshod over alternative media so is Chinese state media steamrolling the mere press.

The love of money has been famously described as “the root of all evil”. It has tainted love, motivated betrayal, ruined virtue and corrupted incorruptible activists. It’s never about the money yet somehow it always is.

Why are countries named “the People’s Democratic Republic” always autocratic tyrannies and why do regimes who bemoan the lack of baby milk seem awash with expensive rpgs and machine guns?

Sound familiar? The mass working-class defection to the Conservative Party; the colonisation of Labour by middle-class graduates; the transformation of Labour from a party of working people into a metropolitan machine more concerned with gender-neutral toilets and taking the knee than with what working-class people want and need