The truce is over. Raise your hands, everyone who knew it wouldn’t last.
Was it a golden apple
Dang. We counted on the only adults in the room to think for us. How did they get it so wrong?
According to local media, Hong Kong police on Thursday conducted a raid on the office of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, where they seized reporting materials. Five executives have been arrested, including editor-in-chief Ryan Law, for alleged collusion and suspected contravention of the national security law in relation to articles published allegedly calling for sanctions to be imposed against Hong Kong and China.
If Joe had just cleaned Putin’s clock he wouldn’t have been so testy. Biden probably read Vladimir the riot act and either the Russian leader:
The probability he said “By gum you’re right Joe” is low.
If religion gives meaning to the lives of the faithful, there are a lot more Americans now who lack that meaning than there used to be, and they’re concentrated on the left side of the political spectrum. It’s not difficult to imagine these people seeking the kind of meaning that religion would otherwise have provided them.
Despite the soothing assurances that the global rule based ship is better than ever it is clearly taking in water. All the happy talk about Climate Change can’t conceal the fact that China has run up the Jolly Mao Roger and Russia has not been brought to bay. The globalist ship is in trouble. Leave her Johnny, leave her.
Continue reading “Heavy weather ahead”U.S. President Joe Biden asked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday how he would feel if someone carried out a ransomware attack on Russian oil pipelines …
While saying he had not made any threats to Putin in their talks, which a senior U.S. official said had lasted about three hours, Biden said he had posed a theoretical question to his Russian counterpart about the dangers of cyberattacks.
Continue reading “Gas Is So Scarce in Europe That Coal Is Making a Comeback – Bloomberg”Europe is so short of natural gas that the continent — usually seen as the poster child for the global fight against emissions — is turning to coal to meet electricity demand that is now back to pre-pandemic levels.
Nothing to worry about says Biden. The French operator just needs help.
With acapella group Home Free
The communiqué issued on Sunday fleshed out some of the proposals that have dominated the summit and was explicit in the need to counter the rise of China.
“Three years ago, China wasn’t even mentioned in the G7 communiqué,” according to an administration official who briefed reporters on its contents. “This year, there is a section on China that speaks to the importance of coordinating on and responding to China’s nonmarket economic practices and the need to speak out against human rights abuses, including in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.”
Robinson raises the question of election. An administration’s actual legitimacy may be grounded in such demonstrations of bureaucratic power as gaining the acclaim of institutions. ‘We are in power because we can enforce possession’ may be immoral but enforceable. Even assuming a candidate cheated in an election his ability to get away with it would be a demonstration that the system is willing to go along with it. He can make it happen; he has the vote of the insiders. And that pragmatically counts for something.
Leaders of the world’s largest economies on Saturday unveiled an infrastructure plan for the developing world to compete with China’s efforts, but the democracies didn’t immediately agree on how to publicly call out Beijing, including for its forced labour practices.
