[American Conservative] Tne unfortunate casualty of media consolidation could be the objectivity of news at a time of rising tensions with China. According to Gallup, public approval of the media’s response to the coronavirus pandemic is the lowest out of the nine institutions surveyed, the only net negative on the list. Many more Americans approve of the president’s response.
There are three reasons why the public is right to be skeptical, all of which have been on display during the coronavirus pandemic. One is a credulity toward experts. Max Fisher of the New York Times tweeted on Monday, in response to growing skepticism toward Chinese claims that they’ve brought the outbreak under control, "If your well-grounded concern is that official Chinese data can never be trusted, it’s worth considering that the WHO is vouching firsthand for the country having achieved a major turnaround."
The tweet linked to an interview with Canadian epidemiologist and World Health Organization advisor Bruce Aylward, who spent last Friday dodging a Hong Kong journalist’s questions about Taiwan in an interview that really has to be seen to be believed. Setting aside the other evidence that the WHO has been co-opted by China, this is a little embarrassing.
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[ZERO] Gundlach explains the title of today's webcast "Looking Backward", which is a nod to a novel written in 1888, and where the protagonist of Edward Bellamy’s socialist-utopian novel goes into a trance in 1887 and awakens in 2000. Gundlach says the novel resembles situations in society today. In the novel the protagonist finds a year 2000 described as having shorter working weeks and equal distribution of goods. In the book, Boston is part of a totally changed world in which the U.S. has been transformed to a socialist utopia, which includes internet and full-benefits retirement at 45.
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So gummint is going to pay people to not work. (UBI)
Idle hands.
The Devil rubs his hands together.
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Well they might as well do so, and be _equal_, not equitable, about it, if they're going to harrass us into being unable to work, and destroy industries. If they don't have enough money they can go proscribe Jeff Bezos or Tim Cook or Mike Bloomberg for the money.
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IIRC in Looking Backwards, it was when almost all of business was operated by a dozen or so major corporations/businesses that the government simply took them over, replacing the upper management with government apparatchiks. One day the oligarch the next day 'retired'.
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For many in the oil industry, these stupid stimulus checks are what's keeping our household afloat while we vainly attempt to find new work. Starting to feel like there is a huge bias in non oil geology against oilfield geologists. I've been searching for nearly a year without success other than a couple offers I couldn't afford to live on assuming I could even find a place I could then afford to live at. Job market isn't good atm.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] On March 4, two European leaders will touch down in Israel for a visit that should worry Europhiles and delight Euroskeptics.
Neither Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz nor Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen would state it so openly, but both are losing faith in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s ability to vaccinate the bloc’s people fast enough. So they’re talking to Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel (which leads the world in vaccinations), about ventures that could, in a pinch, get jabs into Austrian and Danish shoulders.
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[American Thinker] The worst kept secret in Washington, D.C. is that Joe Biden is suffering from serious age-related cognitive decline. In January, although some people predicted he would remain in office for up to two years before he was gently ushered out to make room for Kamala Harris, I looked at the man and thought he was going to be retired by June. Lately, though, Biden looks as if he's heading for an April or May retirement. On Monday, he had his worst public appearance yet, when he was unable to remember either the name for his secretary of defense or the Pentagon.
Anybody who's dealt with aging relatives unlucky enough to suffer from cognitive decline, whether Alzheimer's or age-related senility, recognizes what's going on with Joe Biden. Sally Zelikovsky wrote with great compassion about what's happening in Biden's life right now:
Stress and anxiety don't cause dementia but can exacerbate a dementia patient's confusion. It can be brought on by something as mundane as a large family gathering, a change in routine, a fall, a visit to the hospital, or stress from a job. While "sundowning" or decompensating after a family event are common fallouts from stress, the real challenge is the accumulation of stress and anxiety over time that leads to confusion and, ultimately, delusions, which, in turn, can foster increased levels of anxiety that can exacerbate the confusion experienced and result in even more delusions, and so forth and so on. It's a hellacious cycle.
Biden's minders, including Mrs. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, are doing their best to insulate Biden from the stress. However, his title means he must get out of the bedroom periodically and play at being president. That effort must be wreaking havoc with Joe's tenuous grasp on memory and reality.
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Seeing the FICUS all dressed up in POTUS regalia going to Camp David made me think of a "Make A Wish" kid asking his parents why are we going to Disney?
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Still the ideal president for the bureaucracy. He doesn't interfere with their little pet projects at all. And the more senile he gets, the less he will interfere. They love him!
And it appears that they are the ones calling the shots these days.
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It occurs to me, with Xiden's propensity to grope and sniff, that getting a cat would make him Pepe le Pew.
[American Conservative] There are technically sound reasons for handling overpriced tracking devices smartphones with a degree of caution. That goes double for the allegedly "secure" messaging apps that run on them. These concerns have taken on a heightened sense of urgency given that senior politicians and government bureaucrats are throwing around terms like "domestic terrorist." Those are fighting words by Beltway standards, and an omen that security services are in the process of adopting a new threat du jure. Activists may want to pause for a moment and consider the benefits of more traditional forms of organizing.
If you have a movement that depends heavily upon a digital platform, you don’t have a movement. What you’ve actually got is a honeypot that, wittingly or otherwise, will snare those drawn to it. In the end, all of that data traverses a maze of interconnected pipes which are centrally monitored and controlled by you-know-who. Which is to say that powerful data correlation techniques are not imaginary and so-called "strong" encryption is a graven image. Making presumptions about security is an act of blind superstition. You may as well start hanging garlic to ward off vampires.
Rest assured the powers that be are watching like hawks. A joint intelligence bulletin recently circulated by the FBI and DHS mentioned potential plots against the Capital on March 4 and March 6. The House of Representatives dutifully freaked out and cancelled its March 4 session. On the other hand, the Senate opted for business as usual, maintaining a fairly normal floor schedule. Did calmer minds prevail? An inside source told CNN that rumors of another capitol siege were "mostly online talk and not necessarily an indication anyone is coming to Washington to act on it."
What’s important here isn’t the alleged plots or ensuing hysterics. What’s important is the incidental reference to authorities somehow being privy to the sensitive deliberations of groups that reside out on the political periphery. That is something similar to federal efforts currently underway in Germany. The actual likelihood of another attack on the capitol, in the immediate future, ranges from low to nil for obvious reasons.
The activation of domestic intelligence should serve as a reality check for keyboard operators who’ve grown accustomed to talking a big game online. Illusions of network privacy are about to run smack into a surveillance apparatus that’s historically unrivaled. As with America’s nuclear arsenal, the internet is a direct descendent of the military. It arose out of the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), a collection of routers and servers premised on surviving nuclear war and enabling mass surveillance. Leveraging what spy chiefs refer to as the "home field advantage" they erected a sprawling panopticon fueled by Silicon Valley’s talent for automation, artificial intelligence, and scalability.
Apologists reflexively claim that there’s no reason to be concerned. They say commercial data silos primarily exist to sell ads. Unfortunately, classified documents reveal that when spies want access to said data they’ll get it. The generals and the C-suites have been in cahoots since the days of the rotary dial phone.
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Please, please I am so decimated, devastated at the loss of an aunt,an uncle and my cousin 'PoHe', I can hardly compose myself, and write this comment.
In my view, it has been a watershed year, a tragic
year, our loss of such vibrant personalities, how can I go on ?
Please, please, no more, I feel the pain, deep into my bones... the sensation of being woke by a terrible, evil being... no more, they are no more.
I pray, we do not repeat such tragic losses this year, nor ever again. Oh, the humanity.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] On March 4, two European leaders will touch down in Israel for a visit that should worry Europhiles and delight Euroskeptics.
[American Conservative] There are technically sound reasons for handling overpriced tracking devices smartphones with a degree of caution. That goes double for the allegedly "secure" messaging apps that run on them. These concerns have taken on a heightened sense of urgency given that senior politicians and government bureaucrats are throwing around terms like "domestic terrorist." Those are fighting words by Beltway standards, and an omen that security services are in the process of adopting a new threat du jure. Activists may want to pause for a moment and consider the benefits of more traditional forms of organizing.
