Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

The old world order is giving way to something new. But what? New at the Belmont Club

One small part of Barr’s broadside We are now in a crazy position that, if we identify a terrorist enemy on the battlefield, such as ISIS, we can kill them with drone or any other weapon.  But if we capture them and want to hold them at Guantanamo or in the United States, the military …

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The alternative to doing time was unappealing. https://apnews.com/11ae6142bbb84af49daae80b94f1b4e2?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

Maybe the way back to stability is to start from scratch. New at the Belmont Club

How to pronounce Ghislaine According to a quick survey of videos of people introducing her, American and British pronunciations are roughly the same (Maxwell was the founder of an environmental nonprofit, a philanthropic job that often took her to conferences and TedTalks, and before the U.N.). These people, who I assume confirmed how to pronounce …

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“The data involved in the initiative encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient names and dates of birth.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-s-secret-project-nightingale-gathers-personal-health-data-on-millions-of-americans-11573496790

Won’t talk without union lawyers. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/nyregion/epstein-suicide-jail-investigation.html

LEO satellite Internet will disrupt 3rd world politics. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/11/11/SpaceX-launches-Starlink-satellites-with-first-reused-rocket-nose/5081573139187/

“But to see this country sort of shrink up and turn inward and to be trying to separate yourself from Europe” https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/former-us-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-i-am-concerned-about-path-uk-is-headed-1-5043107/amp?__twitter_impression=true

After a controversial decision by the constitutional court to scrap presidential term limits, Mr Morales ran for a fourth consecutive term in office in October 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-12166905

Widespread secrecy can only survive if the institutions are trusted. The lower the level of trust, the smaller the volume of classified material that can be tolerated. Some secrecy is necessary but excess classification hurts everybody because ironically it creates a paranoid society. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/the-ukraine-scandal-spreads.php

It’s impossible to commemorate the collapse of the USSR without recalling Ronald Reagan, a man contemporary media opinion regarded as a bozo and a fool, yet clearly saw what self-appointed intellectuals missed: Communism was a fraud.

Because this is a case of alleged collusion vs alleged coup neither side can claim the right to keep a secret. Ordinarily one party represents the state in an investigation. But the question in this case is precisely who is the state? Because this is ultimately a political struggle there are precious few rules either …

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Bill Barr plays the pipes.  Some others join celebrity dance contests.  What do a person’s hobbies convey?

“In contract theory and economics, information asymmetry deals with the study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the other. This asymmetry creates an imbalance of power in transactions.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry The job of the media is not to disseminate the news but to protect the information asymmetry of the …

Continue reading “So who leaked the off mic moment?”

Human happiness by government program New at the Belmont Club

Did Hillary mean ‘enacted’ or ‘elected’? https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/469407-hillary-clinton-warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-would-never-get-enacted?amp&__twitter_impression=true

“We take violations of company policy very seriously, and we’re pursuing all avenues to determine the source of the leak,” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/abc-pursuing-source-leak-amy-robach-footage-1252915?__twitter_impression=true

ABC News Execs Have Identified Former Employee Who Accessed Amy Robach Hot-Mic Footage, Sources Say. They need to protect their high standards of integrity. https://yashar.substack.com/p/scoop-abc-newsepstein

Hollywood has conditioned us to believe that if there’s a bad guy in the story the other must be a good guy. But often real world conflicts are contests between bad guys. It’s an Alien vs Predator world. The reason the cynical media hates the idea of Christianity is it’s absurd belief that somewhere, someplace …

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