“For every child who will drive down this street and see the name of the first Black President of our country, this boulevard will serve as a physical reminder that no goal is out of reach and that no dream is too big,” tweeted City Council President Herb Wesson after the renaming Saturday. CNN
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Booming economy due to Obama
Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker both argued during Sunday interviews that former President Barack Obama deserves the credit for a good economy under President Donald Trump. Daily Caller
Odin in Afghanistan
The killer unit National Interest
New at Belmont: the American way of hybrid war
Foreign intervention without military force.
Is Putin selling Maduro out to hold on in Venezuela?
Some analysts think that the two heavyweight countries might be coming to some kind of deal over Maduro’s potential departure.”(There’s) little doubt in my mind that the Russians and the U.S. have been talking for weeks about some kind of deal to ease Maduro out of office,” Timothy Ash, a senior emerging markets strategist at …
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Clarifying
The Venezuela issue is making it impossible for the Left to hide in ambiguous positions. Forced to choose they choose.
We will not be thrown away
Today a classmate died. He was funny, brave and incredibly successful. It was a sobering moment to realize that the world outside didn’t stop and a memento mori for ‘if the heavens do not stop for princes they will not stop for me’. Simone de Beauvoir, I remember reading somewhere, felt the same realization on …
Why the Chinese are so formidable
A couple of years ago I started noticing elderly Chinese or Asians going around Sydney’s upper North Shore with prams or supermarket trolleys filled with cans or plastic bottles. Having been a scavenger in Tondo one time in my life I recognized exactly what they were doing. These old Chinese folks were going around segregating …
Can tech be neutral?
Or must it “take a stand”? I watched Dorsey’s ted appearance on my computer at home … Listening to him speak at ted felt like witnessing the end of something: the end of the techno-utopian period when social-media architects could speak eagerly about democracy and openness, without also mentioning the potential for enabling authoritarianism. … This …
New at the Belmont Club: the pagan world returns
And welcome to Wolfenstein.
The War of the Liars
After the USSR fell its strategists decided its best offense against the West consisted of disinformation. The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia is a geopolitical book by Aleksandr Dugin. The book has had a large influence within the Russian military, police, and foreign policy elites and it has been used as a …
New at the Belmont Club
Our transient certitudes. Tomorrow is a dead cert, until it actually arrives.
Virtue signaling is really blame laying in disguise
Sri Lanka’s President has demanded the resignation of two top security officials after the Easter Sunday terrorr attack after it emerged key intelligence on attack targeting churches was withheld from ministers. The perpetrators were educated in the UK and Australia. The question asks itself. What role did trendy Western fads play in unleashing this ISIS …
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Wanted
We are getting a glimpse of hybrid warfare, American style For the first time, the United States government is offering a multi-million dollar reward for those who provide accurate information about the finances and activities of the Hezbollah terrorist group; a tempting offer for some Venezuelans with classified information.The amount offered by the State Department …
Offensive cyberwar
NEARLY THREE YEARS after the mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers began disemboweling the NSA’s hackers and leaking their hacking tools onto the open web, Iran’s hackers are getting their own taste of that unnerving experience. For the last month, a mystery person or group has been targeting a top Iranian hacker team, dumping their secret data, tools, …
Secret baloney
The CIA thought the USSR would overtake the US as the world’s largest economy in 1992. The article tries to understand how such a tremendous intelligence failure could take place. Part of the reason was because the wrong estimates were ‘secret knowlege’ and therefore they must be true. It was secret baloney. Errors do not …
Designated target
The irony in the story that the Sri Lanka church attacks were a retaliation for NZ is the New Zealand attacker was neither a Christian nor a New Zealander. The ‘Easter Worshippers’ are just a designated target. So what happens? The New Zealanders get their guns confiscated and the Sri Lankan Christians are bombed. Yet …
The saga of “Fort Trump”
Since 2014, NATO strategists have focused much of their attention on a forty-mile-wide stretch of border between Poland and Lithuania called the Suwalki Gap (pronounced ‘Soo-vow-kee’). The gap’s two highways are the only land corridor by which NATO troops could reinforce its Baltic member states in event of a conflict with Russia. …To the west …
The Hanson video: Mueller Probe Could Backfire
The rises of fanaticism
“Secularism” is on the decline in the West too. It’s full of fanatics. Secularism requires not the absence of belief, but the absence of fanaticism. Odd that it should have reached its peak in the early 2000s when much that is now deemed anathema was prevalent. “JAKARTA, Indonesia — The deadly attacks in Sri Lanka …