It’s been a cold winter in Australia after a summer that never even came. Five degrees C in Sydney these past mornings and 0 to -3 C in inland NSW. But the entire southern hemisphere has been extraordinarily cold this year with South America in a deep freeze. Hot northern hemisphere, cold south about sums …
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Tired of working for the Party
“Lying flat” is a “resistance movement” to a “cycle of horror” from high-pressure Chinese schools to jobs with seemingly endless work hours, novelist Liao Zenghu wrote in Caixin, the country’s most prominent business magazine. “In today’s society, our every move is monitored and every action criticized,” Liao wrote. “Is there any more rebellious act than …
The age of privateers
New at the Belmont Club. How a globalist elite, intent on controlling the planet, multiplied its vulnerabilities.
Branson goes for billionaire altitude record
Biden asks: who colossally hacked us on the 4th of July?
Joe Biden said on Saturday he had directed US intelligence agencies to investigate a sophisticated ransomware attack that hit hundreds of American businesses as the Fourth of July holiday weekend began and aroused suspicions of Russian gang involvement.
The vagabond king
Elon Musk decides there are more important things to do than live in a castle.
Hackers attack the global world’s logistical tail — again
Hackers just perpetrated one of the largest known supply chain cyberattacks so far. The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal report that IT management software giant Kaseya has fallen victim to a ransomware attack that compromised its VSA remote maintenance tool. The company initially claimed that “fewer than 40” of its customers were directly affected, …
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They boarded the train as instructed
For my parents, like so many people of their generation living out their later years in care homes, lockdown offered not protection but imprisonment. ‘It’s cruel,’ Mam would say, over and over again, in the painful and awkward phone calls that we shared over the last year or so. ‘Just cruel.’ ‘What have you been …
From ivory tower to dark tower
the governance of Yale probably more closely resembles that of, say, Belarus, than it does of a typical U.S. governmental body or publicly traded U.S. corporation. The Board of Trustees of Yale is elected theoretically at least in part by university alumni, but in reality the only candidates considered for election are selected by the …
The fact checkers strike again
A scientist who credits himself as the inventor of mRNA vaccines, and has warned that they carry risks downplayed in the COVID-19 pandemic, said this week that LinkedIn “shut down” his personal account without explanation.
Colossal comet from the Oort Cloud headed sunward
“We will have practically 20 years to study it,” said Peter Vereš, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian and at the Minor Planet Center, which identifies and computes orbits for new comets, minor planets and other far-flung rocky bodies. That’s an exciting opportunity, he said, because the comet is likely a …
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While the West closes coal, nuclear Asia builds 600 coal plants
China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam plan to build more than 600 coal power units … enough to power the UK more than three times over – despite calls from climate experts at the UN for all new coal plants to be cancelled. … Catharina Hillenbrand von der Neyen, the author of the report, said: …
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Queen canceled
A prominent statue of Queen Victoria has been torn down by protesters in Canada as anger grows over the deaths of indigenous children at residential schools. The protesters cheered as the statue at the legislature in Manitoba’s capital Winnipeg was toppled on Thursday. A smaller statue of Queen Elizabeth II was also upended nearby.
If someone joins the Stasi, do they count as extremists?
Screenshots shared on Twitter showed a notice asking “Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist?” and another that alerted users “you may have been exposed to harmful extremist content recently.” Both included links to “get support.”
Why not live like Woke cavemen?
NY Mayoral primary proves fraud exists
Nothing underscores this more dramatically than the mega-fiasco surrounding the New York City Democratic mayoral primary. As the world knows now, some 135,000 non-existent votes were somehow magically injected into the system. The winner of this supposed “ranking system” election (it certainly was “rank” in every sense of the world) is naturally suing and we …
North Koreans ‘heartbroken’ by Kim’s weight loss
Pyongyang has not officially acknowledged any changes to Kim’s weight or health, so the interview amounts to the most official confirmation to date of the secretive North Korean leader’s sudden change of appearance.
Marketing optimistic Chinese self confidence vs Western managed decline
Xi Jinping has projected himself as the ‘Strong Horse’ and painted China as an attractive future in contrast to Joe Biden and the self-hating West which cannot even find something good to say about itself.
Chinese tourist spot is a jenyoowine fake
The town of Xianpu looks and feels like it has been lost in time, stuck in China’s bygone days and filled with picturesque landscapes and a population that appears as though it was plucked directly from that era. But the “rural” city is entirely fake, created by several teams of photo crews and actors who …
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Armed robbers hold up Oakland TV crew during interview with city violence prevention chief
Robbers held up a television crew at gunpoint during an interview with the director of violence prevention in Oakland amid the city’s huge wave of violence, police have said. The attack took place outside City Hall on Monday just hours after the police chief blasted his city’s decision to defund its police department by $18.5million …