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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?
Britain returns to the Pacific
Britain has returned to the world stage as herself and not just as part of the European Union. The old world order has gone. Something new is stirring in its place. This is the fundamental problem of the Restoration.
Pelosi: There’s an ‘enemy within’
It’s ok be a Communist radical just not the other thing.
FBI lawyer gets probation for faking Carter Page allegations
Serious violations but it didn’t matter. But what is the point of process or falsifying the application at all? Kevin Clinesmith’s actions were serious, but the warrant probably would have been approved anyway, a judge rules..
Mail-in Voting Expansion Proposed
If mail in voting was good then more is better. But if it’s bad then more is worse since its defects will be proportionately magnified. The migration from in-person to mail-in voting implies an improvement in the chain of proof of identity. The demand for more identity security may run counter to the political promise …
Why suddenly and now?
They are not deterred by the formidable reputation of the new administration. Doesn’t China know the only adults in the room are watching them? A confirmation that the mission flown on Jan. 23 was simulating an air strike on the U.S. aircraft carrier comes from the Financial Times, that on Jan. 29, 2020 reported: “People …
Starship vs the Gov’t
If Elon ever gets to Mars he’ll declare independence from Earth. The December test launch of the “Serial Number 8” Starship prototype at SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas, facilities was hailed by Musk as a success: “Mars, here we come!!” the chief executive tweeted moments after the rocket exploded on its landing, celebrating SN8’s successful 8-mile-high …
Why is Goliath Still Vulnerable to David?
The quick answer is that there is more bandwidth, more nodes, more complexity and more emergence for David to exploit against Goliath. The status quo has been repeatedly blindsided by events that seemingly came out of nowhere. It responds by creating ever denser and interlinked connections which never quite behave as they’ve modeled. 9/11, Brexit, …
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The Mutants Are Coming
We’re in a slow motion biowar against something — nature, human agency, a combination of both. The name of that something is unimportant for now. The only thing that matters is that it’s chronic. What the experts are telling the public is that vaccines are now a permanent part of 21st century life. The air …
You gotta tell ’em! Bureacracies are made of people!
Even public health bureaucracies are fallib.e. Crises are stress tests. They invite scrutiny in places that might otherwise go unexamined. For decades money meant for pandemic preparation was used “the removal of office furniture, administrative expenses, news subscriptions, legal services and the salaries of other department employees.” Nobody ever really saw the pandemic coming. Institutions …
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China Abandons Its Own Wildlife Market Virus Origin Theory
Do those who dismiss the lab accident origin theory of Covid 19 have a problem with the alternative pushed by the Chinese government itself? That theory is that the virus was imported into China. Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, said on Monday (Jan. 18) at a press conference that the US should …
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Wuhan Lab Origin of Virus Goes Mainstream: Questions for Fauci
The “gain of function” research to engineer nightmare viruses may have been the other half of the quest to create flexible vaccine platforms that could create “24 hour bug to drug” preventives as powerful defenses against pandemics. But it was not exempt from the risk of lab accidents. The vaccines are in some sense the …
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WHO advisor: COVID-19 pandemic likely China lab leak says ex-Biden expert
Now it can be told because “because President Biden is very smart and strategic and he understands that American power and American strength doesn’t rest on bluster, it rests on principles, it rests on partnerships, and alliances and accountability.” One year after the pandemic started, World Health Organization advisor Jamie Metzl wants China to come …
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USS Self-deception
Navigating on falsified position reports. The stars are where we want them to be. New at the Belmont Club
Gimme. The Scramble for Vaccines
The world order would have been in real trouble without vaccines to fight over. For decades politics has been premised on the theory that scarcity was a thing of the past; that the only problems left to solve involved redistribution. The pandemic showed real scarcity can still exist and demonstrated how dependent the world is …