California’s “status as the vanguard of environmental policy seemed at the very least diminished.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/us/climate-change-california-fires-trump.html
Biden says Warren medicare plan unaffordable
Warren retorts that Obama officials disagree.
The dark tower
Knowledge inequality is creating a world of primitives ruled by sorcerers. Take California …
Baghdadi learns some things don’t change
The 21st century collides with the 8th and the 1st joins in.
Changing how you see yourself
How much of the transgender surge is caused by social media? And has this phenomenon happened before?
Taliban blow up mosque in peace negotiations
The Taliban and Islamic State fighters are actively operating in parts of Nangarhar, which shares a border with Pakistan in the east.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-blast-idUSKBN1WY09U
The mosque attack was the latest act of violence in the country. A U.N. report this week said 4,313 civilians were killed and wounded in Afghanistan’s war between July and September.
Zuckerberg avoided yoking himself to China
It’s one of the reasons we don’t operate Facebook, Instagram or our other services in China. I wanted our services in China because I believe in connecting the whole world and I thought we might help create a more open society. I worked hard to make this happen. But we could never come to agreement on what it would take for us to operate there, and they never let us in.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/mark-zuckerberg-takes-a-surprising-stand-for-freedom
Where no man has gone before
Jeff Bezos driven by Star Trek but is driven to go through Washington.
When reporters tracked down Bezos’s high-school girlfriend, she said, “The reason he’s earning so much money is to get to outer space.” This assessment hardly required a leap of imagination. As the valedictorian of Miami Palmetto Senior High School’s class of 1982, Bezos used his graduation speech to unfurl his vision for humanity. He dreamed aloud of the day when millions of his fellow earthlings would relocate to colonies in space. A local newspaper reported that his intention was “to get all people off the Earth and see it turned into a huge national park.”
As China becomes less derivative its incentive to protect its own patents will grow
- Chinese telecoms giant is stepping up pursuit of royalties and licensing fees as US restricts access to American markets and suppliers
- Huawei is currently engaged in negotiations or disputes with Verizon, Qualcomm and defence firm Harris Corp.
The Kurdish problem becomes a NATO crisis
The cans can no longer be kicked down the road as the realities of the 21st century overwhelm the politics of the 20th.
The Turkish offensive
The Kurds aren’t doomed to lose.
Should the US midwife Kurdistan?
Do the right thing, but do it in a bipartisan manner.
The fate of the Kurds
It’s not clear how far Turkey will go. See map provided by NYT. But the lack of clarity is the problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/us/politics/trump-turkey-syria.html#click=https://t.co/A6JY7viPn4
Man does not live by 5 year plans alone
My opinion piece at the Wall Street Journal on what lights up the soul. It’s a surprise.
How “By Any Means Necessary” created its mirror image.
Do you want to know why so many GOP candidates who looked good on paper fell so quickly during the 2016 primary? I'll tell you why: it's because primary voters could readily imagine the lovely, principled, dignified concession speeches they would give.
— John Hayward (@Cobretata) October 1, 2019
The march of folly
Political leaders can miscalculate. At some point in the current American power struggle events can take on a life of their own.
The long cold civil war
No one can afford to lose.
The day the 21st century began
September 11 is not an event in the past but a warning for the future
How we lost the future
Because we “know it already”.
US vs China
The Communist Party of China vs the Western elites.
New at the Belmont Club