SEOUL—North Korea has a few demands to restart nuclear talks with the U.S., according to South Korea’s spy agency. Kim Jong Un’s regime wants sanctions restrictions relaxed to allow exporting minerals and importing more refined fuel. Also on the must-have list: fine suits and premium liquor.
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North Korea breaks out last ditch food
Seoul’s intelligence service says climate change effects appear to have hit crops, causing shortages
I can mashed potato, do the twist
How unbiased is CNN?
The attorney general’s report on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo includes communications from his brother, Chris.
The Mandatorian
New at the Belmont Club. The road from trusting the experts to fearing the police.
Infected but not feeling it
Some of the cases were asymptomatic, most involved mild to moderate symptoms and only two required hospitalization, officials said. The infections were determined to be Delta-related because most samples in San Francisco were tested for the variant, which is now dominant in the city.
Who said “Color is nothing, Class is everything”
In regards racial issues?
The “law of necessity”
In a late-night public address on Wednesday, Mr. Duterte argued that the coronavirus emergency trumped laws guaranteeing freedom of movement, calling his order “the law of necessity.” “If they don’t want to be vaccinated, they should not be allowed to go out of their homes,” Mr. Duterte said. “They may say there is no law, …
Poor salesmanship
New at the Belmont Club. Why don’t people know what’s good for them? Or do they?
Just drop the depth charge anywhere
New at the Belmont Club. Trying to understand coronavirus restrictions in terms of Hollywood submarine movies.
Barbara Boxer assaulted, robbed in California
“The assailant pushed her in the back, stole her cell phone and jumped in a waiting car,” the tweet said. “She is thankful that she was not seriously injured.”
Chance encounter
They say it only happens in the movies and too corny to believe.
The vaccine has failed relative to inflated political promises
“The NYT has decided it’s acceptable to discuss the topic of C19 vaccine failure. Even Dr. Fauci agrees.”
Progressive arrests all rival candidates
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan police placed under house arrest a seventh presidential contender on Saturday, meaning that almost all of those who could have challenged President Daniel Ortega in the Nov. 7 elections have now been detained.
What the ‘selfless’ can learn from the Great War
The newest progressive insult is the epithet “selfish”, which appears to mean ‘not doing what the experts say is best for everyone’. The fallacy here is it discounts the effect of personal experience and feedback on behavior. The reason many people are being ‘selfish’ about Covid is disillusionment with the assurances and warnings issued by …
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Famine, pestilence and war
In Europe, North America, Oceania and East Asia, the Covid-19 pandemic has been a tragic, wrenching experience, creating more depressed and divided societies. Yet, as we have been gazing obsessively at our own problems, a spectre infinitely worse is emerging in the most populous, fastest growing and least resilient parts of the world.
In the last days of the Obama administration
Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is releasing “Recommended Policy Guidance for Departmental Development of Review Mechanisms for Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO).” Adoption of these recommendations will satisfy the requirements for lifting the current moratorium on certain life sciences research that could enhance a pathogen’s virulence and/or …
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68% still trust Fauci poll says
The survey also found that 68 percent of participants believed that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s foremost infectious disease specialist, provided trustworthy advice on the pandemic. Dr. Fauci has come under repeated attack from conservative media figures like Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson of Fox News..
Funded Wuhan and proud of it
Fauci added: “So, it was research that was done by qualified people. Right now, when there’s all of this thing about China, that’s a different situation now back then when you’re dealing with qualified, highly respected Chinese scientists. So it isn’t what was made out to be about dealing with really, really bad people. Because …
No way back
Nearly every politician now in office or who won reelection on the promise of a return to the “normal” old global world will fail in his pledge as it becomes clear that the pandemic and the new Cold War with China have changed things deeply.