Memo to the One World Department
From the Aberdeen Hong Kong proving grounds
Re Effect of Mark 19 Super duper shame weapon on the Communist Party of China
One of the things progressives are good at is selling good intentions, whether racial justice, climate justice, clean energy and/or Middle Eastern peace. However the path to these laudable goals wends through riots, resegregation, carbon taxes, gas shortages and renewed war in Israel. Why is that?
One theory is these bad things — like the depressing jobs report — are signs the progressives are on the right track. ‘Things have to get worse before they get better’.
The public will buy this contradictory experience for a while, just as some have gone along with the notion that more censorship, surveillance and gun control is needed to save democracy. But they will not go along with it forever. Sooner or later a policy becomes defined by what it does, rather than what it intends.
You are what you do. What have they done?
Mr Biden wants to “restore credible engagement” by the Palestinians in long-stalled peace talks with Israel.
The hack on the Colonial Pipeline has caused informal gas rationing in some localities.
Researchers said China was responsible for 27% of all greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, nearly three times the amount emitted by the United States and more than the entire developed world combined.
The Blaze
The cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline by the Russians no less is a reminder that old fashioned national security, fuel stockpiles and working class labor still matter in the real world. When you need them you really need them.
Plus “the black fungus”.
Continue reading “The threat also evolves”We live in this bizarre world where Greens are praising Chernobyl for creating an environmental garden spot; where incredibly bad job figures are signs Biden has got things right; when Russians who attack US infrastructure justify their acts as merely criminal and everyone believes the covid pandemic was caused by a Species X that no one can find.
Maybe ‘post-truth’ is another name for crazy.
‘We are just ordinary criminals’, Russian group claims as Biden seeks alternative ways to deliver fossil fuel after key pipeline is disrupted.
The voting reforms, which will also include a limit on the number of postal votes that can be handed in on behalf of others, are being justified by ministers as a way to reduce the risk of electoral fraud.
Guardian
Bad luck I guess.
Widespread shortages and production snags are driving prices higher for many everyday items, as an uneven economic reopening leaves Americans facing the unfamiliar risk of inflation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/10/economy-inflation-prices/
“The burden brought by radiation at Chernobyl is less severe than the benefits reaped from humans leaving the area,” explains plant biochemistry expert Stuart Thompson, who adds that the zone “supports more life than before.”
After being described as the end of mankind, now it’s a pity it wasn’t.
The New York Times fears the Chinese narrative, which they see projected through methods copied directly from the Western media. Beijing is using its clout to suppress Western ‘conspiracy theories”. As the MSM ran roughshod over alternative media so is Chinese state media steamrolling the mere press.
The love of money has been famously described as “the root of all evil”. It has tainted love, motivated betrayal, ruined virtue and corrupted incorruptible activists. It’s never about the money yet somehow it always is.
Why are countries named “the People’s Democratic Republic” always autocratic tyrannies and why do regimes who bemoan the lack of baby milk seem awash with expensive rpgs and machine guns?
Sound familiar?
Continue reading “The Labour that doesn’t work”The mass working-class defection to the Conservative Party; the colonisation of Labour by middle-class graduates; the transformation of Labour from a party of working people into a metropolitan machine more concerned with gender-neutral toilets and taking the knee than with what working-class people want and need
