Normalcy in US projected by second quarter — if no new mutations arise. Transition toward normalcy in the United States remains most likely in the second quarter of 2021 and herd immunity in the third and fourth quarters, but the emergence of new strains and a slow start to vaccine rollout raise real risks to …
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There’s information in these scenes but what is it? That we’ve turned the corner, are not in Kansas any more, or is this the new normal? I wrote on January 12 that: “I suspect significantly fewer are going to tune in, if not in America then at least in the rest of the world, not …
Whenever a politician issues a call for unity two serious questions immediately arise: unity in exchange for what? who are the parties to the agreement? Where existing political parties represent the great majority of the public “unity” can be achieved by coalition government, bipartisan agreement or other similar consensus mechanisms. However where parties have been …
The script returns to its central place in governance as Biden’s speeches are written by committee. But is he speaking through the committee or vice versa? Is it Milli Vanilli or Cyrano de Bergerac? Biden has grown comfortable with chief speech writer Vinay Reddy and senior adviser Mike Donilon, who have helped him thread his …
A finding that Covid was caused by a lab accident would be devastating to the health bureaucracy and pharma. The world needs an inquiry that considers not just natural origins but the possibility that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, escaped from a laboratory. The WHO team, however, plans to build on reports by Chinese …
Two other U.S. officials told The Associated Press that all 12 were found to have ties with right-wing militia groups or posted extremist views online. The officials, a senior intelligence official and an Army official briefed on the matter, did not say which fringe groups the Guard members belonged to or what unit they served …
The Global World got away from the 5 Year Planners. Don’t worry. They’ll “build back better”. Instead of being chastened the lesson they seemed to have learned is their power did not extend far enough. By planning to extend their sphere into biotechnology, social networks and climate engineering all will be fixed.
There are two, possibly three themes in this thoughtful email from a friend, who because of his public character, I’ve reproduced anonymously though with his permission. The email’s main points are: The world is in the midst of a paradigm shift comparable to the industrial or perhaps agricultural revolution; America and perhaps the West is …
Where’s the send button?
A world that’s been locked down, surveilled, censored, deplatformed and purged must be wondering how much more progress it can stand. A whole lot more probably. People have no idea how defective they are deemed to be. If you didn’t know how virtuous it was you might get the wrong idea. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon …
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No laughing matter.
Climate actions planned for first day. They include a raft of environmental policies to be enacted on the first day of his presidency, including re-joining the Paris climate accord. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/biden-keystone-xl-1.5877038
When the Lives of Others is a movie about you. New at the Belmont Club
Did you know you can back up your social media data? The Data Transfer Project was launched in 2018 to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that all individuals across the web could easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want. The contributors to the Data Transfer Project believe portability …
Back in 1988 Bill Moyers was recalling Lyndon Johnson explaining how to keep whites poor by encouraging them to look down on “colored men”. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch …
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It’s a good thing Washington is immune to Chinese influence. “Its ultimate goal is to control what’s between the ears. That is, your brain or how you think, which [Beijing] hopes leads to a change of behavior,” Tzeng Yi-suo, director of the cybersecurity division at the government-funded Institute of National Defense and Security Research in …
So argues David Goldman. Money is information. But if facts are anything you want them to be then you can create money out of nothing. Truth and money goes from being rooted in reality to a deep fake. So how can Bidenomics go bankrupt? It can happen if reality exists, if God is something you …
What better way to demonstrate virtue than by intimidating the unworthy. Parler, which is a favorite of Trump supporters, was booted off Apple and Google’s platforms after the Capitol riots and Amazon took it off its cloud hosting service, Amazon Web Services. In response, Parler filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. Amazon countersued, saying Parler’s …
Following last year’s efforts to ban Trump Administration officials from speaking on campus, Harvard University students are now circulating a petition that calls for revoking degrees from Trump supporters and aides who attended the elite Ivy League institution The much more accurate term is “to unperson“, to create: an individual who usually for political or …
There are two forbidden questions in public discourse today. The integrity of the 2020 elections; The origin of the Covid virus. John Hinderaker writes: “Democrats are making extraordinary efforts to suppress all discussion of whether Joe Biden actually won the 2020 presidential election. In fact, they go even farther: they want to suppress all discussion …
