By piling on too many progressive policies once Biden created induced drag. Then with reduced power he pulled the nose up and increased the angle of attack beyond allowable limits. Conclusion:
“It’s working!”
The value of a Woke education
An “A” in Equity and an “F” everywhere else. What’s the average?
The shame weapon and Beijing
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
China Targets Muslim Women in Push to Suppress Births in Xinjiang
In most of China, women are being urged to have more babies to shore up a falling birthrate. But in Xinjiang, they are being forced to have fewer.
Selling good intentions, getting bad results
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?
Violence in Israel Challenges Biden’s ‘Stand Back’ Approach
Biden sends envoy as Israel and Hamas escalate toward war – Axios
Biden administration to restore $235m in US aid to Palestinians – BBC News
Mr Biden wants to “restore credible engagement” by the Palestinians in long-stalled peace talks with Israel.
The return of Jimmy Carter
The hack on the Colonial Pipeline has caused informal gas rationing in some localities.
Colonial Pipeline cyberattack has Cincinnati drivers monitoring gas prices
Anderson Township man says daughter in Virginia limited to 10 gallons per trip to the pump
The color of carbon
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
China’s greenhouse gas emissions exceed every developed nation combined, researchers say
China produces more greenhouse gas emissions than any other developed nation in the world combined, according to new data.What are the details?Despite climate change alarmists who claim the U.S. has a problem with greenhouse gas emissions, a new report from the Rhodium Group exposes China as the wor…
Fossil fuels are bad — until you need them
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.
The Fossil Fuels Must Go Through | The Pipeline
There is something surrealistically ironic about Joe Biden’s Emergency Order to mobilize tanker trucks — anything — to keep the fossil fuels going. On the one hand it is a backhanded admission of how vital the products transported by the Colonial Pipeline are. On the other it is a reminder of how …
The threat also evolves
WHO elevates Indian coronavirus strain to ‘variant of concern’
A top official at the World Health Organization on Monday announced the agency is elevating a coronavirus variant first identified in India from a ‘variant to interest,’ to a ‘variant to concern,’ citing early studies suggesting increased transmissibility.
Plus “the black fungus”.
Continue reading “The threat also evolves”A post-truth society
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.
Russian pipeline hackers claim they are apolitical
‘We are just ordinary criminals’, Russian group claims as Biden seeks alternative ways to deliver fossil fuel after key pipeline is disrupted.
UK requires voter ID, limits postal votes
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
Inflation in the economy may be making a comeback – The Washington Post
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/
Menaced by our own technology
Three cheers for Chernobyl
Chernobyl: Why the nuclear disaster was an environmental success
The 1986 disaster has unexpectedly created Europe’s largest nature reserve.
“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.
All is proceeding as planned
Beijing “fact checking” MSM journalists
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.
When Covid Hit, China Was Ready to Tell Its Version of the Story
The government has been using its money and power to create an alternative to a global news media dominated by outlets like the BBC and CNN.
The lure of mammon
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.
Israel says Palestinian NGOs funnelled European donor cash to militants
Israel accused a Spanish resident of the occupied West Bank on Thursday of being part of a network of NGOs that it suspects of diverting sums “in the eight figures” from European donations to a Palestinian faction that is on the EU’s terrorism blacklist.