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Is climate change anxiety codespeak for ‘white fragility’ asks the Scientific American.

Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon

Is it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or to get “back to normal?”

Stealth destroyer gets turned into a floating command node. Unmanned vehicle doctrine is being tested by the fleet. PACFLEET Preparing for 2021 Unmanned Fleet Battle Problem.

Zumwalt Destroyer Will Control Unmanned Ships, Aircraft in Upcoming Fleet Battle Problem – USNI News

The Navy will get a first glimpse of what future operations could look like, when a Zumwalt-class destroyer manages long-range surveillance and fires by manned and unmanned platforms in an upcoming exercise in the Pacific. U.S. Pacific Fleet will host its most complex exercise to date involving unma…

Progressive intellectuals explain how they could not see monsters in their own ranks because they were blinded by Donald Trump. The dazzle of Trump made them mistake Cuomo for a feminist hero.

It was way too easy for America to be fooled by Andrew Cuomo

There’s a special sting to discovering the man who convinced you he could assure your safety turns out to be dangerous himself.

Biden’s foreign and domestic policy appears to consist largely of virtue signaling. Whether about the border with Mexico, Covid, murders in Georgia, Putin, Uighurs, Burma the signal contains a large measure of Wokeness. The question is whether the policy is all virtue signaling or whether there is something solid behind the appearance.

New at the Belmont Club. Clutching at reality. How epistemology became a modern political crisis.

“Now it’s the Left’s turn.” The radical Democrats make a play for power. Inevitably Biden will be the next target. Can a nonentity who was once Obama’s creature resist?

Andrew Cuomo’s Reign Is Over. Now It’s the Left’s Turn.

After years of bullying, brutal austerity, and massive giveaways to the wealthy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s rule in New York is finished. His allies are in disarray, never expecting their prince’s fall from grace. Now it’s time for the Left to step up and reshape New York for the many, not the few.

Hell is a place where nothing exists that we cannot conceive. It is a totally sterile place with no surprises and in Shannon’s sense no additional information. Safety is where we know all the outcomes and nothing unexpected happens. And nothing unexpected happens.

The scales fell from his eyes while tormented in Iranian prison

The Princeton Historian Mugged by Reality

Since being freed from Iranian detention, Xiyue Wang has been unrelenting in his criticism of the authoritarian country—and some American elites’ attempt at rapprochement.

File under “barn door” and “horse”. Better luck next time.

SOS signature-matching guidelines for absentee ballots ruled “invalid” by judge

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson put out guidance to county and local clerks for signature matching on absentee ballots in October, prior to the 2020

Beijing plans to press Washington to reverse many of the policies targeting China introduced during the Trump presidency in the first face-to-face meeting of senior U.S. and China officials since President Biden’s election, according to people with knowledge of the plans.

WSJ

WSJ News Exclusive | China Plans to Ask U.S. to Roll Back Trump Policies in Alaska Meeting

For the first high-level session with Biden’s team, Beijing will ask the U.S. to reverse limits on American sales to Chinese firms, visa restrictions and other measures, according to people familiar with China’s plans.

Denunciations don’t convey much status information about who’s in virtue but about who’s in and who’s out.

New at the Belmont Club.

Arson attacks on Sunday against 32 Chinese-invested factories in Hlaingthaya prompted China’s strongest comments yet on the turmoil gripping its neighbour, where many people see Beijing as supportive of the coup.

China’s Global Times newspaper said “vicious attacks” caused damage worth $37 million and injuries to two Chinese employees. Its embassy urged Myanmar’s generals to stop the violence.

Reuters

Military tightens grip, death toll among anti-coup protesters rises as Myanmar seethes

Myanmar security forces shot dead at least 20 pro-democracy protesters on Monday, an activist group said, and the military junta imposed martial law in parts of the main city Yangon, giving commanders wide powers to stamp out dissent.

New at the Belmont Club. Safetyism vs statism. Suppose the future is China, I kid you not Sherlock.

Well if they say so.

China coal consumption tipped to rise despite green shift

Economic growth is tipped to drive China’s coal consumption despite a shift to green energy.

Why is vaccine skepticism highest among health care workers?

DW investigates why COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is above average for health care and front-line workers, despite clear scientific evidence the vaccines are safe and effective

DW

COVID-19 Special: Vaccine skepticism among health workers | DW | 24.02.2021

DW investigates why COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is above average for health care and front-line workers, despite clear scientific evidence the vaccines are safe and effective

As surprising as the projection may be to some, such a surge in coal consumption is not that unexpected. India’s power generation is set to grow exponentially to 3565 TWh by 2037, more than double 2020’s figure. Electricity production will already exceed 2000 TWh from 2025 and is set to breach the 3000 TWh ceiling from 2034 as a result of an electrification boost and economic growth.

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Rystad Energy: India’s coal use set to boom a renewable wave cannot keep up with electrification growth

New data from Rystad Energy shows that, despite coal power generation hitting a 5-year low due to COVID-19, coal power is expected to remain important to India’s electricity production.

Don’t that beat all.

Schumer and Gillibrand join Democrats urging Cuomo to resign

The majority of New York Democratic House members have also now called on the embattled governor to step down.

Green baroness regards men as intolerable danger to women after male police officer is suspected of abduction-murder. Calls for 6 pm curfew.

Green Party’s Baroness Jones stands behind her call for a 6pm curfew

Baroness Jones was criticised after using a House of Lords debate to propose legislation that would require all men to stay at home.

Joe hasn’t embraced Iran tightly enough.

Progressives Are Losing Patience with Biden’s Iran Policy

Left-wing voices on foreign policy say pressuring the administration may serve their goals better than joining it.

Coming soon to a theater near you.

Sen. Tim Scott: ‘Woke supremacy is as bad as White supremacy’

Sen. Tim Scott called the current left-wing control of the culture, and its racial attacks on him and other Black conservatives, comparable to America’s history of racism.