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Deception
New at the Belmont Club. Misdirecting amidst the fog of war.
Crimes Against Humanity
New at PJMedia VIP. With the exception of Putin the only ones the ICC bothers with are African tinpot strongmen. Where do you sue those who’ve ruined the world with pandemic, war and ideological social engineering?
School’s Out Forever
New at the Belmont Club. The problem of human obsolescence.
Showin’ Them Who’s the Boss
New at PJMedia VIP. Law enforcement can be used to overawe opponents. But there’s a social price.
Who Goes There?
New at the Belmont Club. Understanding a threat you’ve never in your life seen before.
The Reasons for ‘Lookism’
There is apparently an evolutionary reason behind ‘lookism’, the aversion to ugly people. Christoph Klebl, Professor Brock Bastian, Dr Katie Greenaway and Joshua Ju-suk Rhee of the University of Melbourne write: “We found that our psychological bias against people and things we consider ugly is tied up in a built-in human response that’s designed to …
Infamy is a Kind of Fame
New at PJMedia VIP. Living through a crisis historians haven’t labeled yet. After all, it took till 1945 for the term World War 2 to become official.
Has the West Got What it Takes?
My newest at the Pipeline. Like one of those action movie fight scenes where the Russian combatant pulls out a knife from a stab wound and smiles.
Knowledge is Pow-ah
New at the Belmont Club. The Wizard War on steroids.
The war vs carbon in the 3rd world
Planners want to replace the legacy Philippine jeepney vehicle fleet with “environmentally friendly models”. But the drivers are up in arms at the new units, “that operate through electricity or more environment-friendly fuel” at 2.4 to 2.6 million pesos each which are much more expensive than current vehicles costing from 200 to 600 K pesos.
My Name Was Bond
New at the Belmont Club. You always write twice.
Dialectics 101
DEI is coming to medical schools. “Increasingly, medical schools and schools of public health are enthusiastically embracing the values of DEI and instituting far-reaching policies to demonstrate their commitments to the cause. … That ideology is exemplified by a research methodology called “public health critical race praxis” (PHCRP)—designed, as the name suggests, to apply critical …
Who’s on first?
New at the Belmont Club. The implausible prophet of the Kremlin.
The Belmont Club is Free to Access
I will be writing both inside and outside the VIP at PJ Media. The Belmont Club will remain publicly accessible as I promised.
Our Recent Past
New at the Belmont Club. If you give up freedom for safety, you may wind up with neither.
“Epochal Struggle”
New at PJ Media. China joins the fray.
Hitting the Taiwan Beach
The key thing to keep in mind in any conflict in the Indo-Pacific is that sea denial/access depends as much on ground expeditionary forces covering naval movements as it does on forces afloat. This applies to China as much to the USA. “The RAND corporation has run simulations which suggest that it would take a …
US, Japan Create Force to Defend Luzon
Japanese defense forces can now deploy to the Philippines. “The new defense agreement allows Japan to deploy its forces for humanitarian missions and disaster response in the Philippines, an arrangement Japan hopes to eventually upgrade to include joint military training, cooperation and mutual visits, Japanese officials said.”
Advisors to the Philippines
Looks like the US is sending advisory teams to the Philippine Army.