Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

Who might that Democratic candidate capable of winning in the EC be? https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/468956-hillary-clinton-urges-democrats-to-pick-a-candidate-who-can-win-the

Warren, like Trump, is a “populist”. What have the elites done to deserve this? This means that apart from Biden there is no champion for the Restoration, unless Hillary comes back in. Politics is now firmly in the post-something era. “Change has come to America” and the Left searches for its continuation. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-wall-street.html#click=https://t.co/kEe2CReAXu

But not exactly in the way Obama thought. He was on one Arc of History but history was on a different trajectory. Average politicians think they can control the future. The slightly more talented simply seek to understand and survive it. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6181477

“it looks like a campaign and it sounds like a campaign but it isn’t a campaign” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/04/the-stakes-are-enormous-is-hillary-clinton-set-for-a-white-house-run

Obama expressed particular frustration with young people on college campuses who think the best way to enact change is “to be as judgmental as possible about other people.” https://reason.com/2019/10/30/barack-obama-woke-scolds-campus-activism/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Did someone predict this? https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/turkey-may-have-stepped-its-own-endless-war-syria-kurds-erdogan-trump

“look for the losers, especially the ones who want to think they are winners because they hang on to important positions.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-how-the-kgb-knew-youd-be-a-traitor-an-exclusive-look-at-its-recruitment-manual?ref=home

Spying on the sleeping is like tainting children’s ice cream. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/11/02/google-to-buy-fitbit-for-21-billion-what-about-privacy-concerns/amp/

California’s “status as the vanguard of environmental policy seemed at the very least diminished.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/us/climate-change-california-fires-trump.html

Warren retorts that Obama officials disagree. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/468587-warren-fires-back-at-biden-criticism-of-medicare-for-all-plan?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Knowledge inequality is creating a world of primitives ruled by sorcerers. Take California … New at the Belmont Club

The 21st century collides with the 8th and the 1st joins in. New at the Belmont Club

How much of the transgender surge is caused by social media? And has this phenomenon happened before? New at the Belmont Club

The Taliban and Islamic State fighters are actively operating in parts of Nangarhar, which shares a border with Pakistan in the east. The mosque attack was the latest act of violence in the country. A U.N. report this week said 4,313 civilians were killed and wounded in Afghanistan’s war between July and September. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-blast-idUSKBN1WY09U

It’s one of the reasons we don’t operate Facebook, Instagram or our other services in China. I wanted our services in China because I believe in connecting the whole world and I thought we might help create a more open society. I worked hard to make this happen. But we could never come to agreement …

Continue reading “Zuckerberg avoided yoking himself to China”

Jeff Bezos driven by Star Trek but is driven to go through Washington. When reporters tracked down Bezos’s high-school girlfriend, she said, “The reason he’s earning so much money is to get to outer space.” This assessment hardly required a leap of imagination. As the valedictorian of Miami Palmetto Senior High School’s class of 1982, …

Continue reading “Where no man has gone before”

Chinese telecoms giant is stepping up pursuit of royalties and licensing fees as US restricts access to American markets and suppliers Huawei is currently engaged in negotiations or disputes with Verizon, Qualcomm and defence firm Harris Corp. South China Morning Post

The cans can no longer be kicked down the road as the realities of the 21st century overwhelm the politics of the 20th. New at the Belmont Club

The Kurds aren’t doomed to lose. New at the Belmont Club

Do the right thing, but do it in a bipartisan manner. New at the Belmont Club