Ukraine’s Constitutional Court has upheld a law that equates communism to Nazism and bans the dissemination of its symbols, a law that has prompted angry protests from Moscow. In the July 16 ruling published on its website, the court said the “communist and Nazi regimes” used similar methods of “implementing repressive state policies.” “The communist …
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How the death of privacy and the ideology of taking offense is creating a feedback loop of pure noise. New at the Belmont Club
The space we inhabit is already delimited by many boundaries described by membership. Private airline lounges are closed to economy travelers at airports. The doors to restaurants, hotels and shops are effectively shut to illegal aliens and poor people who go to San Francisco. The deceptive absence of physical walls belies the fact there are …
Hard choices emerge New at the Belmont Club
Megacities are immensely fragile because complexity is only prevented from descending into chaos by the order provided by massive quantities of energy. The power outage in Manhattan is a reminder that civilization cannot function for more than a few hours without electricity. What will happen in a 5G, Internet of Things world if the whole …
Green energy like any other form of power generation will require large installations to produce. The land devoted to windfarms, solar energy arrays and biofuel cultivation, not to mention tidal generators will grow as the population increases. Since “Green” Satanic Mills must ultimately replace the old Satanic Mills with facilities of comparable or even more …
When you can’t trust the self-advertised only adults in the room. New at the Belmont Club
What would happen to the Philippines if a naval conflict broke out with China? A blockade of China would be conducted from the Indian ocean and the final line would be at the Malay barrier bounded by the Lombok, Sunda and Malacca Straits. That would be outside the range of Chinese area denial systems. The …
“sizeism is affected by racism, misogyny, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism, and she counsels people against intentional weight loss.” Philadelphia Inquirer
A tragic fire aboard a secret Russian nuclear ‘mini-sub’ in the Barents Sea that killed 14 senior sailors has refocused media attention on a little noticed flash point of the world: the Arctic. That an important Russian system was being tested or demonstrated was suggested by reports “that among the 14 dead were 7 senior …
To say that conservative-liberal dialogue was heated was an understatement. There was in the drumbeat a buildup suggestive of teams psyching themselves to do something bold, building up a mood of defiance and despair so incandescent that Andy Ngo, a conservative journalist preparing to cover an event in Oregon, feared for his safety. He tweeted …
Now reading A Long Night in Paris And do remember No Way In. Tondo will never be Paris, but it’s all we had.
After it became the unofficial anthem of Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement, netizens have discovered that the hymn “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord” has been banned by several Chinese music streaming platforms. If you had asked someone in 1968 whether this could happen they would think you were crazy.
New at the Belmont Club. Chronic warfare in a global world.
The US cyberstrikes Iran’s missile systems after Tehran shoots down a US drone. This is not the end of war but a change of its forms. Just as the Coral Sea was the first naval engagement beyond visual range of the opposing fleets this is the first battle in which only automata die. So far …
China New at the Belmont Club
With the administration taking a tough economic line vs Iran, China and Russia tensions are bound to rise. What will that look like?
Chronic conflict in the global world. New at the Belmont Club
In 1970 to 1980 trained dolphins killed 2 Russian frogmen who were putting limpet mines on a US cargo ship in Cam Ranh bay in Vietnam.[19] Subsequently, Russian PDSS frogmen were trained to fight back against trained dolphins. In an incident on the coast of Nicaragua PDSS frogmen killed trained anti-frogman dolphins. Arrival of underwater …
And just think. All this time the population was worried about neo-Nazis holding conventions in some low rent venue. “[They need to] realize that these social media platforms are picking the next president, the next congressmen — they’re literally picking — and they have the power to pick, so they will be controlled by the …
