Riots as AstraZeneca Says It Can’t Fill Orders

The European Union’s Health Commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, tonight slammed the cut, warning it was ‘not acceptable’. It comes after Eindhoven in the Netherlands saw its worst riots in nearly 40 years over the weekend, with Mayor John Jorritsma warning the country was ‘on our way to civil war,’ amid outcry over a new nationwide curfew. …

Trust in Media At Critical Level

Polls show that 56% of Americans agree with the statement that “Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations.” 58% think that “most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public.” When Edelman re-polled Americans after the election, …

Biden’s Not Healing the Nation: Andrew Sullivan

Note: Behind paywall. “But none of that can or will happen if the president fuels the culture war this aggressively, this crudely, and this soon. You don’t get to unite the country by dividing it along these deep and inflammatory issues of identity.” I was not surprised. Biden couldn’t be a healer. He sold his …

The Online Chinese Gambling Casino or POGO

The places where anything goes, including kidnapping and blackmarket coronavirus vaccinations. Your mileage may vary. Dozens of scantily dressed Filipina croupiers stand in booths shuffling cards in front of a webcam, their faces softly illuminated by professional lighting.Nearby, rows of Chinese nationals sit at desks chatting on cellphones with potential clients back in China.This is …

Keystone Cancellation To Shame China

The Keystone pipeline cancellation will force Canadians to find overseas markets for oil. Mr. Biden revoked the Keystone XL permit on Wednesday, hours after taking office, effectively shutting down a 12-year, cross-border project that would have carried 830,000 barrels a day from Alberta to Nebraska and eventually to refiners on the Gulf Coast. His executive …

Production and Logistics Is The Hard Part

First the easy part. Now the hard part. The AstraZeneca disclosure also threatens a fresh reputational hit to the British pharmaceutical giant, which partnered with the University of Oxford in developing the vaccine. AstraZeneca is responsible for manufacturing and distribution of the vaccine, as well as regulatory approvals. We never notice the lights that stay …

The 3rd, 4th, 5th … Man

Everybody comes … well not to Rick’s. If you want to get a shot for the ‘Rona in the Philippines try the online Chinese gambling casino. The bootleg vaccines aren’t limited to Chinese workers. In late December, President Rodrigo Duterte said members of the Philippine military had already taken the coronavirus vaccine from Sinopharm, a …

Biosphere 2: Why Managing the Planet and Creating Artificial Worlds is Hard

As governments contemplate managing the biology of entire populations, embark on social engineering and remolding the climate one might ask: what could go wrong? In the fall of 1991, I was sealed into an airtight, three-acre mini-world called Biosphere 2, a $150-million futuristic facility near the aptly named town of Oracle, Arizona. I joined seven …

Melting icebergs key to ice age: New study — ScienceDaily

In their study, the team propose that when the orbit of Earth around the sun is just right, Antarctic icebergs begin to melt further and further away from Antarctica, shifting huge volumes of freshwater away from the Southern Ocean and into the Atlantic Ocean. As the Southern Ocean gets saltier and the North Atlantic gets …

China Bans It’s Foes

“You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies.”— Oscar Wilde In a statement released just minutes after President Biden took office, China’s foreign ministry said it had decided to sanction those “who have seriously violated China’s sovereignty and who have been mainly responsible for such U.S. moves on China-related issues.” The …