Looks like the status quo is having a rough time of it all over the world. “Chatsworth, there’s something wrong with our bloody global world to-day!” In retrospect the pandemic turned out to be a poisoned pawn for political opportunists. What they greedily pounced on as an opportunity to grab power has unleashed furies. Prior …
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Riots as AstraZeneca Says It Can’t Fill Orders
The European Union’s Health Commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, tonight slammed the cut, warning it was ‘not acceptable’. It comes after Eindhoven in the Netherlands saw its worst riots in nearly 40 years over the weekend, with Mayor John Jorritsma warning the country was ‘on our way to civil war,’ amid outcry over a new nationwide curfew. …
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Trust in Media At Critical Level
Polls show that 56% of Americans agree with the statement that “Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations.” 58% think that “most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public.” When Edelman re-polled Americans after the election, …
Biden’s Not Healing the Nation: Andrew Sullivan
Note: Behind paywall. “But none of that can or will happen if the president fuels the culture war this aggressively, this crudely, and this soon. You don’t get to unite the country by dividing it along these deep and inflammatory issues of identity.” I was not surprised. Biden couldn’t be a healer. He sold his …
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The Online Chinese Gambling Casino or POGO
The places where anything goes, including kidnapping and blackmarket coronavirus vaccinations. Your mileage may vary. Dozens of scantily dressed Filipina croupiers stand in booths shuffling cards in front of a webcam, their faces softly illuminated by professional lighting.Nearby, rows of Chinese nationals sit at desks chatting on cellphones with potential clients back in China.This is …
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PRC Planes Into Taiwan ADIZ
Keystone Cancellation To Shame China
The Keystone pipeline cancellation will force Canadians to find overseas markets for oil. Mr. Biden revoked the Keystone XL permit on Wednesday, hours after taking office, effectively shutting down a 12-year, cross-border project that would have carried 830,000 barrels a day from Alberta to Nebraska and eventually to refiners on the Gulf Coast. His executive …
Bodhi Missed This One
Production and Logistics Is The Hard Part
First the easy part. Now the hard part. The AstraZeneca disclosure also threatens a fresh reputational hit to the British pharmaceutical giant, which partnered with the University of Oxford in developing the vaccine. AstraZeneca is responsible for manufacturing and distribution of the vaccine, as well as regulatory approvals. We never notice the lights that stay …
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Amazon Objects to Unionization Mail-in Vote
Amazon “believes the best approach to an election would be conducting it in person, saying it ‘provided the NLRB with a safe, confidential and convenient proposal for associates to vote on-site, which is in the best interest of all parties—associate convenience, vote fidelity and timeliness of vote count.’”
The 3rd, 4th, 5th … Man
Everybody comes … well not to Rick’s. If you want to get a shot for the ‘Rona in the Philippines try the online Chinese gambling casino. The bootleg vaccines aren’t limited to Chinese workers. In late December, President Rodrigo Duterte said members of the Philippine military had already taken the coronavirus vaccine from Sinopharm, a …
In A Time of Disillusion
Ideals are inevitably embodied in institutions made up of people. But since people are flawed institutions consequently betray our trust in them. The problem every man faces is how to maintain faith in a world full of betrayal. The dilemma can be avoided by denial but only temporarily. Unless it is eventually faced and solved …
Meghan McCain: Politicians Lied To Me
Shocking. As the palmist said: Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. McCain went on to say that she had been disappointed to see Biden and his family …
Biosphere 2: Why Managing the Planet and Creating Artificial Worlds is Hard
As governments contemplate managing the biology of entire populations, embark on social engineering and remolding the climate one might ask: what could go wrong? In the fall of 1991, I was sealed into an airtight, three-acre mini-world called Biosphere 2, a $150-million futuristic facility near the aptly named town of Oracle, Arizona. I joined seven …
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Melting icebergs key to ice age: New study — ScienceDaily
In their study, the team propose that when the orbit of Earth around the sun is just right, Antarctic icebergs begin to melt further and further away from Antarctica, shifting huge volumes of freshwater away from the Southern Ocean and into the Atlantic Ocean. As the Southern Ocean gets saltier and the North Atlantic gets …
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Beyond Govt Power
Without the vaccines the world would be in a bad place. The monster didn’t go away as we hid in the basement, it just made itself at home in the kitchen. The only way out is to shoot it with drugs. Until a few months ago the authorities weren’t really sure the vaccines would work. …
Puny Governments
The $1.8 trillion search giant’s local managing director Melanie Silva told a Senate committee hearing on Friday that Google would shut off search in Australia if the government’s proposed media bargaining code becomes law. Experts said the threat is not idle, with Google likely fearful the code could set a global precedent. Their statements need …
Joe Biden Removes Churchill Bust
Setting the tone.
China Bans It’s Foes
“You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies.”— Oscar Wilde In a statement released just minutes after President Biden took office, China’s foreign ministry said it had decided to sanction those “who have seriously violated China’s sovereignty and who have been mainly responsible for such U.S. moves on China-related issues.” The …
The Race Goes On
New data shows that the Covid-19 vaccines currently on the market may not be as effective in guarding against new, more contagious strains of the coronavirus, giving “all the more reason” to vaccinate people faster, White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Thursday.