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The new USS Langley?
Stealth destroyer gets turned into a floating command node. Unmanned vehicle doctrine is being tested by the fleet. PACFLEET Preparing for 2021 Unmanned Fleet Battle Problem.
How Cuomo and the Left conned each other
Progressive intellectuals explain how they could not see monsters in their own ranks because they were blinded by Donald Trump. The dazzle of Trump made them mistake Cuomo for a feminist hero.
Probing Biden’s front line
Biden’s foreign and domestic policy appears to consist largely of virtue signaling. Whether about the border with Mexico, Covid, murders in Georgia, Putin, Uighurs, Burma the signal contains a large measure of Wokeness. The question is whether the policy is all virtue signaling or whether there is something solid behind the appearance.
Our crisis of political belief
New at the Belmont Club. Clutching at reality. How epistemology became a modern political crisis.
Now for the October Revolution
“Now it’s the Left’s turn.” The radical Democrats make a play for power. Inevitably Biden will be the next target. Can a nonentity who was once Obama’s creature resist?
Safetyism
Hell is a place where nothing exists that we cannot conceive. It is a totally sterile place with no surprises and in Shannon’s sense no additional information. Safety is where we know all the outcomes and nothing unexpected happens. And nothing unexpected happens.
Former Princeton researcher finds you can’t always trust conventional wisdom after being held hostage in Iran
The scales fell from his eyes while tormented in Iranian prison
“Prove it’s fake” signature standard rejected too late
File under “barn door” and “horse”. Better luck next time.
Will Joe yield to China’s demands?
Beijing plans to press Washington to reverse many of the policies targeting China introduced during the Trump presidency in the first face-to-face meeting of senior U.S. and China officials since President Biden’s election, according to people with knowledge of the plans. WSJ
Shark frenzy
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.
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.