No longer the regime agent watching from across the street but the cell phone tracking you from your pocket. Who needs the Stasi when the regime has social media?
Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
Biden restoration
If the Biden Restoration just tries to restore Washington and foreign affairs to the way it was in November 2016 it will fail comprehensively. The old system was collapsing even as Hillary strode confidently toward her accession. It was the Deplorable’s awareness of the ancien regime’s impending collapse of which the aristocracy was blissfully unaware …
Biden will fail at human rights because of Trump
NYT: Sanctions demonstrate you care even if they don’t work and drive the generals into the arms of China. But Aung San Suu Kyi ruined her reputation and Trump smashed everything so how can Biden succeed? With sanctions and virtue signaling ineffective Washington might have to do something practical in foreign affairs. Washington can no …
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The 21st Century according to Elon
In an interview he argues we have too many rules, too few kids; are too concerned with supplying the answers and not enough with asking the questions, including the most important of all: why are we here? He believes the greatest threats and opportunities are those which touch upon conciousness; what the ancients called the …
Jack Ma canceled
(Reuters) – Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has been left off a list of Chinese entrepreneurial leaders published by state media – the snub underscoring how just far he has fallen out of favour with Beijing. Reuters
Kerry defends private jet ride to receive 2019 climate award
Biden global climate czar John Kerry flew by private plane in 2019 to accept an award for his climate work in Iceland, a decision he defended at the time as “the only choice for somebody like me,” as shown on a video posted Wednesday by FoxNews.com … touting his climate bona fides and saying his …
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“Joe Biden just put me out of business”
signed Tim T. Schowalter. Politics is all about paying off political debts. This action was done under the guise of helping climate change but will not stop one CO2 molecule from being released, as there is nothing in the executive order to reduce consumption.
Hold my beer
While other governments were wooing vaccine makers with subsidies and immunity from liability in case of side effects, the EU focused on pushing prices down and slowing negotiations, which resulted in late orders. It also spread its purchases widely to reduce risk, signing deals with companies that are still months away from approved shots. And …
Nation buys guns at blistering pace
The uncertainty and unease is global. From Asia to Europe to Russia and even the Middle East there is much doubt in the air. Experts attribute the demand to fear and uncertainty that was sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, protests over racial injustice from last summer and the 2020 presidential election. … “There’s every indication …
Casts doubt on monster theory
Today, the so-called Dyatlov Pass Incident—named after the group’s leader, 23-year-old Igor Dyatlov—is one of Russia’s most enduring mysteries, spawning conspiracy theories as varied as a military cover-up, a UFO sighting, an abominable snowman attack, radiation fallout from secret weapons tests and a clash with the indigenous Mansi people. But as Robin George Andrews reports …
Biden debating whether to call military takeover in Myanmar a ‘coup’ – CNNPolitics
He knows a coup when he sees one.
GameStop: Elon Musk grills Robinhood chief over sharemarket battle
“Spill the beans, man,” Musk said to Tenev on Clubhouse. “What happened last week? Why couldn’t people buy the GameStop shares? The people demand answers, and they want to know the truth.”
Biden to appoint Iran nuclear deal architect
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Attack of the Mutants
New mutant UK coronavirus strains could resist vaccines.
When the radar is set to ignore
Then all will be well with nothing to report. How censorship is blinding us. New at the Belmont Club
What’s going on w/ SpaceX?
The investigation into this complaint began under the Trump administration, and the request to enforce an administrative subpoena occurred under the Biden administration. It is unclear if this is just another example of how overregulation puts undue burdens on organizations when agencies have conflicting mandates or if CEO Elon Musk’s recent critical statements could have …
Biden Plans Global Democracy Summit
Never mind what China and Russia say. It’s the American voters who think Biden cheated that’s the problem. The West, masked, locked down, surveilled and cancel crazy is a long way from ‘whiskey, sexy, freedom’.
Aung San Suu Kyi out; enter the Dragon?
The Burmese military is back. China is their biggest arms supplier. “President Biden’s administration is reviewing whether the United States will officially label the campaign against the Rohingya genocide.” What happens next? Myanmar was lauded by Western governments, including the Obama administration, as a democratic beacon in a world where authoritarianism was on the rise. …
From out whose bourne we need not return
The information theory of biological aging, if right, means it is reversible in principle. The bad news is that Stalin and Mao might still be alive today. Incumbents almost never lose in Washington. Imagine Nancy Pelosi as Speaker potentially forever. What if the Old Ones decide to limit entry to the club?