A coalition between left wing activists and business titans. One wants your body and the other your soul. Can it endure?
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Covid “may never go away”
Experts have some news for those who thought bringing back the old order would change everything. “White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel and World Health Organization executive director of the Health Emergencies Program Dr. Mike Ryan have said in recent weeks that the coronavirus may never go away.”
Doctors warn that Covid will become endemic and people need to learn to live with it
More and more physicians and public health officials are warning that even with the mass rollout of vaccines, Covid may become endemic.
Anal swabs as Chìna shows the way
Health authorities in China are testing residents for coronavirus – using anal swabs.
Doctors claim the invasive procedure can be more effective in detecting the virus than nasal swabs.
Missing Link sought in coronavirus origin
WHO proposes the virus came to humans from bats through an unidentified species. But which?
WHO releases report on COVID-19 origin after independent investigation in Wuhan
The WHO and Chinese investigators announced several key findings including that the virus could have been present in other regions or countries before the first cases were reported in Wuhan.
Acquitted
“A conviction would have also set the stage for a vote to bar him from serving in public office again.” The outcome leaves the populist forces in the field and the old GOP party in the dust.
Up next: the battle to define conservative politics as Biden faces a new world.
Donald Trump acquitted of incitement of insurrection in second Senate impeachment trial
The US Senate votes to acquit former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, with less than two thirds of senators finding him guilty of incitement of insurrection.
Was it suddenly or all along?
It’s abandon ship at the Lincoln Project. The worst lies are those we make up and come to believe ourselves.
Cuomo And The Lincoln Project Are Media-Created Monsters
A culture of impunity led media to celebrate a governor who presided over a cover-up of nursing-home carnage and boost a GOP group now engulfed in scandal.
Masked until further notice
The mutating virus is in an evolutionary race with politicians and public health authorities. How long did it take them to win the Cold War or War on Terror again?
Biden tells Americans to wear masks for COVID-19 until at least 2022
President Biden on Thursday stressed the importance of wearing masks until at least 2022 to save lives — despite declaring the US will have enough supply of vaccines by the summer to inoculate 300 …
Scoops missed by that much
Ben Shapiro expresses disappointment at all the bombshell scoops — Cuomo, Hunter Biden, the Lincoln Project — that the press just missed exposing presumably due to bad luck.
How long till we move on past the NY nursing home deaths?
The reason people hang on is they still have hope. Do you think hope will get you anywhere?
Cuomo aide apologizes to lawmakers for withholding COVID-19 death toll in New York nursing homes
A senior aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo apologized to state lawmakers this week for the governor’s office withholding requested data showing the death toll in nursing homes from COVID-19, according to transcripts of the conversation published by local media.
NY can admit deaths now the feds are different
As it would undermine their moral standing.
Cuomo aide admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn’t find out
Governor Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fea…
Don’t beg
Canceling people in Woke outrage is a big fad now. Often the canceled — their careers gone, exile affirmed — complain it isn’t fair. But fair’s got nothing to do with it. It isn’t reasonable to expect ‘fairness’, ‘reciprocity’ or ‘tolerance’ from left wing or Woke media outlets or platform. One cannot count on the kindness of an avowed foe. To rely upon it is a confession of mental weakness.
Continue reading “Don’t beg”WHO comes to the conclusion it agreed to reach
Probe ground rules stipulated in advance China would not be blamed. Imported frozen food or wildlife or undetected previous disease may be to blame.
We all mistakes, or so we once believed
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Mark Twain
“This is Sparta” but not in a good way, helot.
The rise of the global China class.
The Thirty Tyrants
The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta
Electric cars will double world power consumption
Musk: Electric Cars Will Require a Lot More Electric Power Than We Currently Have
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says we’ll need more electricity to power cars like his. A lot more.
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that electricity consumption will double if the worldR…
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that electricity consumption will double if the worldR…
Member of Facebook independent oversight board member joins Biden admin
Facebook oversight board member decamps for Biden DOJ
Pamela Karlan drew national attention for testifying in a House Judiciary Committee hearing over Trump’s impeachment in 2019.
The riddle of the sands
China is waging a subtle war against an island neighbour, deploying a rather unusual tactic as it looks to expand its regional empire.
Its latest weapon? Sand…
Satellite images reveal China’s unusual weapon amid Taiwan tensions
China is waging a subtle war against its island neighbour – deploying an unusual tactic as it looks to expand its regional empire.
China’s feet of clay and sword of gold
Although China is a formidable geopolitical rival it is not ten feet tall. It’s birthrate continues to fall to record levels despite the Party’s reversal of the One Child policy. Compared to the Quad alliance …
Chinese birth rate falls to lowest in seven decades
At the same time, China’s population hit 1.4 billion in 2019 – but the gender imbalance remains.
Interview with Steve Bannon
I was interviewed by Steve Bannon on War Room on my recent piece Bandwagon of Perdition. My segment starts at about 26:50
Our sickening simplicity
Charles de Gaulle when asked by a journalist if ‘he was happy’ retorted “What do you take me for, an idiot?” For some people neighborliness is just plain irksome.
Do you really want to help people or just enjoy sitting in judgment of others? This is the dilemma of the virtuous. Nothing is more ensnaring than the temptation of knowing you are better than others for it is the key to power. The churches were meant to be full of sinners while the halls of authority are reserved for those without need of forgiveness. The secret to modern virtue is knowing that no one can forgive.
LA Times Editor Has a Real Problem With Her Nice, Helpful Trump-Supporting Neighbors
What does an editor at one of the nation’s largest newspapers really think about fellow Americans who happen to disagree with her politics? One LA Times opinion editor helpfully tells all in a p…