Denunciations don’t convey much status information about who’s in virtue but about who’s in and who’s out. New at the Belmont Club.
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Chinese targeted in Burma
Arson attacks on Sunday against 32 Chinese-invested factories in Hlaingthaya prompted China’s strongest comments yet on the turmoil gripping its neighbour, where many people see Beijing as supportive of the coup. China’s Global Times newspaper said “vicious attacks” caused damage worth $37 million and injuries to two Chinese employees. Its embassy urged Myanmar’s generals to …
I can do that Dave
New at the Belmont Club. Safetyism vs statism. Suppose the future is China, I kid you not Sherlock.
China ups coal in ‘Green shift’
Well if they say so.
Why don’t people believe?
Why is vaccine skepticism highest among health care workers? DW investigates why COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is above average for health care and front-line workers, despite clear scientific evidence the vaccines are safe and effective DW
Coal booms to fuel clean electricity
As surprising as the projection may be to some, such a surge in coal consumption is not that unexpected. India’s power generation is set to grow exponentially to 3565 TWh by 2037, more than double 2020’s figure. Electricity production will already exceed 2000 TWh from 2025 and is set to breach the 3000 TWh ceiling …
Cuomo vows to fight ‘cancel culture’
Don’t that beat all.
Curfew proposed on men
Green baroness regards men as intolerable danger to women after male police officer is suspected of abduction-murder. Calls for 6 pm curfew.
Left disappointed in Biden foreign policy
Joe hasn’t embraced Iran tightly enough.
Sounds like a movie title
Coming soon to a theater near you.
Saving virtue
New at the Belmont Club. The individually guilty representatives of collective virtue.
China to Biden: rollback Trump on Taiwan
“The Chinese government has no room for compromise,” Wang said.
Microsoft describes China hack attack
Cuomo Paid $65 for Every Book Sold
Politicians get astronomical speaker’s fees also. Their literary skills must exceed Tolstoy’s.
Is the future of Green mining?
Nowadays, many relevant actors of the industry claim that mining is going through the first stages of a deep changeover from the hand of digital transformation. It is said that this process could change how mining is done, passing from human-run operations to autonomous or semi-autonomous remote-controlled mines. Independent if fully automated operations are achieved …
The greatest scam in evolution
Did cats fake domestication?
WHO asked to Scrap Plans on Probe of Covid-19 Origins
“U.S.-China tensions rise over investigation as group of scientists presses for fresh inquiry, including into lab escape theory”
The desert greens
The problem with linear projection is tomorrow won’t be like yesterday. Politicians with hardcoded 5 or 50 year master plans will almost always get it wrong.
Global shipping chaos reflects lockdown effects
As pandemic restrictions increase demand from China and suppress American ports, logistics. Americans stuck in their homes have set off a surge of orders from factories in China, much of it carried across the Pacific in containers — the metal boxes that move goods in towering stacks atop enormous vessels. As households in the United …
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Cancel cover
I was mulling a New York Post report that half the employees at The New York Times are afraid to say what they’re thinking when it hit me. It’s time for Free Speech Insurance. Deadline