Unrest is sweeping the world. Can the centuries old categories of Left vs Right, Reactionary vs Progressive still explain it? New at the Belmont Club
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Creating a narrative
The reliance on classified briefings and special knowledge for news is one way to bring back the vanished age of Cronkite. New at the Belmont Club
No prisoners
The perverse incentives of well intentioned policy. New at the Belmont Club
Can you ever regain control of your data
Or are you doomed to lose it both to those would steal it and those who would protect you? New at the Belmont Club
The coming upheaval
The old world order is giving way to something new. But what? New at the Belmont Club
The declaration of war
One small part of Barr’s broadside We are now in a crazy position that, if we identify a terrorist enemy on the battlefield, such as ISIS, we can kill them with drone or any other weapon. But if we capture them and want to hold them at Guantanamo or in the United States, the military …
Epstein guards refuse deal
The alternative to doing time was unappealing. https://apnews.com/11ae6142bbb84af49daae80b94f1b4e2?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
The lost “old normal”
Maybe the way back to stability is to start from scratch. New at the Belmont Club
Things you ought to know
How to pronounce Ghislaine According to a quick survey of videos of people introducing her, American and British pronunciations are roughly the same (Maxwell was the founder of an environmental nonprofit, a philanthropic job that often took her to conferences and TedTalks, and before the U.N.). These people, who I assume confirmed how to pronounce …
Big Brother
“The data involved in the initiative encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient names and dates of birth.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-s-secret-project-nightingale-gathers-personal-health-data-on-millions-of-americans-11573496790
Doubts grow on Epstein suicide
Won’t talk without union lawyers. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/nyregion/epstein-suicide-jail-investigation.html
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites with first reused rocket nose
LEO satellite Internet will disrupt 3rd world politics. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/11/11/SpaceX-launches-Starlink-satellites-with-first-reused-rocket-nose/5081573139187/
Maybe Hillary is Remain
“But to see this country sort of shrink up and turn inward and to be trying to separate yourself from Europe” https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/former-us-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-i-am-concerned-about-path-uk-is-headed-1-5043107/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Power corrupts everyone
After a controversial decision by the constitutional court to scrap presidential term limits, Mr Morales ran for a fourth consecutive term in office in October 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-12166905
The Ukraine Scandal Spreads
Widespread secrecy can only survive if the institutions are trusted. The lower the level of trust, the smaller the volume of classified material that can be tolerated. Some secrecy is necessary but excess classification hurts everybody because ironically it creates a paranoid society. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/the-ukraine-scandal-spreads.php
The fool
It’s impossible to commemorate the collapse of the USSR without recalling Ronald Reagan, a man contemporary media opinion regarded as a bozo and a fool, yet clearly saw what self-appointed intellectuals missed: Communism was a fraud.
Who is the state
Because this is a case of alleged collusion vs alleged coup neither side can claim the right to keep a secret. Ordinarily one party represents the state in an investigation. But the question in this case is precisely who is the state? Because this is ultimately a political struggle there are precious few rules either …
The other person
Bill Barr plays the pipes. Some others join celebrity dance contests. What do a person’s hobbies convey?
So who leaked the off mic moment?
“In contract theory and economics, information asymmetry deals with the study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the other. This asymmetry creates an imbalance of power in transactions.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry The job of the media is not to disseminate the news but to protect the information asymmetry of the …
The 5 year plan to the “Other Place”
Human happiness by government program New at the Belmont Club