Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

He knows a coup when he sees one.

“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.”

New mutant UK coronavirus strains could resist vaccines.

Then all will be well with nothing to report. How censorship is blinding us. New at the Belmont Club

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 …

Continue reading “What’s going on w/ SpaceX?”

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’.

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. …

Continue reading “Aung San Suu Kyi out; enter the Dragon?”

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 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.

It’s ok be a Communist radical just not the other thing.

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..

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 …

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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 …

Continue reading “Why suddenly and now?”

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 …

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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, …

Continue reading “Why is Goliath Still Vulnerable to David?”

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 …

Continue reading “The Mutants Are Coming”

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 …

Continue reading “You gotta tell ’em! Bureacracies are made of people!”

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 …

Continue reading “China Abandons Its Own Wildlife Market Virus Origin Theory”