The green war on sheep

Is the humble sheep really to blame for eco-armageddon?

I’m writing this to the soundtrack of cacophonous bleating. The fields around my house are slowly filling up with ewes and lambs. They do look cute, these speckled faces with their black noses, but they are here to be eaten. That is the purpose of farming, after all – to raise food for us all to eat. The turning-point in human civilisation was when we were able to raise our own food, as opposed to simply hoping that nature would be bountiful. We altered nature to our own purposes. I can’t think of a more valuable human endeavour than attempting to feed the population.

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Is Prince Harry ‘Meghan’s hostage?’

An “archetype“is a “universally understood term or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned or emulated.” Throughout her podcast series of that name, Meghan Markle analyzed and condemned different “labels that hold women back”: “crazy,” “diva,” “bimbo.” Perhaps next season she’ll switch gears to assess her own husband’s pattern of behavior. Welcome to Archetypes episode thirteen where we will be discussing Stockholm syndrome, my special guest today is Prince Harry…

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t but Charles would be wise to sever the royal ties with these two.

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Debate rages over leaked US belief that Mossad aided protesters

A debate raged throughout the day on Sunday about the veracity of what appeared to be a leaked classified US intelligence analysis saying the Mossad sought to promote protests against the government’s proposed judicial overhaul.

On the one hand, a New York Times report, based on what seemed to be authentic Pentagon intelligence, alleged that senior Mossad officials encouraged the nationwide protests.

On the other hand, The Jerusalem Post has indications that the American intelligence, even assuming it is an authentic classified document, might have misunderstood a number of complicated trends within Israel’s intelligence community.

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The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin

Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.

Texas was gasping for electricity. Winter Storm Uri had knocked out power plants across the state, leaving tens of thousands of homes in icy darkness. By the end of Feb. 14, 2021, nearly 40 people had died, some from the freezing cold.

Meanwhile, in the husk of a onetime aluminum smelting plant an hour outside of Austin, row upon row of computers were using enough electricity to power about 6,500 homes as they raced to earn Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency.

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Rex Murphy: The special rapporteur and a special Alberta election

… Does not Mr. Johnston see that both the ties of friendship with the family, and his heading an organization exclusively set up to honour the prime minister’s father, are at the very least cause for a perception of conflict of interest?

He knows, he just doesn’t give a shit. Not that it matters as everyone knows it’s a pointless pantomime of transparency.

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Why the homelessness crisis could get even worse

Emergency funding has dried up, and the head of Toronto’s shelter department says without $317 million, the city will have to shut more shelters

Toronto is in the throes of a homelessness crisis that’s only getting worse, but new budgets from the federal and provincial governments have failed to offer a life raft, says the head of the city’s shelter system. Short of a major infusion of new funds, he’s warning that Toronto could see fast-tracked shelter closures and increasingly squeezed sites as early as the start of next year.

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The bodies keep the score in Lviv

At the Lychakiv cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv the bodies keep the score.

Within its confines the more than 300,000 graves offer a tangled insight into the labyrinthine history of this eastern European city that even now goes by four different names.

There are Polish generals, mathematicians and philosophers; Ukrainian composers, theologians and playwrights; Soviet and Russian aviators, inventors and academics.

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Anti-Feminism: The Men Going Their Own Way

Warren Farrell, the co-author of “The Boy Crisis,” recently wrote an op-ed criticizing the 57th Super Bowl. Or, as he called it, the “Supersexist Bowl.” The event, which was watched by 113 million Americans, was littered with a number of sexist ads, according to Farrell. To be more specific, it was littered with anti-male ads. One of the advertisements, for “Friday Night SmackDown,” saw a woman approach a man from behind and assault him with a wooden chair.

A man being beaten to a pulp by a woman is hilarious, right?

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‘Eco-Fascism’: Ideological Scourge or Salvation?

I have previously made the argument that environmentalism is a fundamentally conservative ideology.

The proper role of the state, if one exists at all, is to make a sincere attempt to remedy the multitude of ongoing, very real environmental catastrophes — like, for instance, the microplastics pandemic caused in part by the abundance of (mostly useless) COVID-19 surgical masks.

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Biggest fungus outbreak in US history sees nearly 100 staff at paper mill in Michigan struck down by rare mold strain that kills one in 100 victims

Nearly 100 people have been infected and a dozen hospitalized by a rare fungus linked to a paper factory in Michigan.

The fungus Blastomyces is feared to have arrived on moist and rotten wood at the Billerud paper mill in Escanaba, in the north of the state.

Experts told DailyMail.com that the scale of the outbreak was ‘extraordinary’ — and, if confirmed, would be the largest recorded in the US ever.

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