Is China heading for global empire or Soviet collapse?

“China has no real property rights, which, combined with severe environmental degradation, means that land is badly misused and does not generate significant economic growth. Moreover, because of the one-child policy, China will soon face a labour shortage that will worsen over time. The CCP also confronts enormous social costs related to its ageing population and the need to provide a social safety net. Inefficient state-owned enterprise and politically motivated state banks dominate the economy. Thus, unsurprisingly, capital is badly misallocated.”

Long read, worth a look. I lean to collapse.

by Blazingcatfur•February 19, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Our Descent Into Collective Madness

These are crazy times. A pandemic led to national quarantine; to self-induced recession; to riot, arson, and looting; to a contested election; and to a riot at the U.S. Capitol.

In response, are we focusing solely on upping the daily vaccination rate? Getting the country back to work? Opening the schools as the virus attenuates? Ensuring safety in the streets?

Or are we descending into a sort of madness?

by Blazingcatfur•February 19, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"Zeitgeist"

Jewish privilege is a myth

Today’s obsession with ‘whiteness’ ignores the complexities of race

It’s only recently that I came across the idea of “Schrödinger’s whites”. This is the notion that Jews are considered to be white or non-white depending on the political perspective of the viewer. To those on the murkier reaches of the far-Right, Jews are not white; indeed their non-whiteness is considered a threat to the purity of whiteness. But to those on the progressive Left, Jews are often considered archetypally white — powerful, privileged, wealthy. Whether you see a Jewish person as white or BAME has more to do with you than it does with them. It’s a matter of perspective.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"Identity Politics"

Why did we all copy China?

In the UK a line was crossed when we enforced the first lockdown.

History attests that the defeat of a civilisation involves not only its political eclipse, but also the collapse of its values. The relationship between the two varies significantly. Sometimes, a defeated people are forced to adopt their conqueror’s beliefs; hence survivors of the American conquests were assimilated into white culture, to ‘kill the Indian and save the man’. At other times, a lack of conviction creates inner weakness, until, as in Rome, the barbarians have only to shove on the rotten gates to induce their collapse.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

Diane Francis: By unfriending Australia, Facebook proves it is ‘dangerously under-regulated’

If you weren’t worried about the hoodies who run Silicon Valley, you should be now.

A showdown is underway between America’s tech giants and Australia just because it’s trying to get them to pay for copyrighted content they have stolen for decades from traditional media companies.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•facebook, facebook is evil

Trudeau said Canada committed genocide. Why won’t he say the same of China?

Back in 2018, amid continuing diplomatic tensions between Canada and Saudi Arabia, Saudi television and social media lit up with accusations about human-rights abuses in Canada. One commentator on Saudi TV called Canada one of the worst oppressors of women in the world. Social media accounts tweeted identical lines about missing women and about Canada committing “cultural genocide” against Indigenous peoples. These were rich accusations coming from a country where women were stoned to death for adultery and sought permission for everyday activities from male guardians, and Canada at the time largely paid no heed.

Less than one year later, however, Ottawa inadvertently validated all of these Saudi claims – and then some.

(Go incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Will Biden Take On the New Anti-Semitism? He claims to oppose it, but it’s spreading in the progressive wing of his own party.

On February 1, State Department official Kara McDonald announced that the Biden administration “embraces and champions the working definition” of anti-Semitism established by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The Jewish community widely applauded the announcement, which comes at a time when anti-Semitic delusions continue to be normalized in American politics and culture.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Anti-Semitism and the Left

The Failure Of The Texas Power Grid Is Worse Than You Think A rare winter storm has put ordinary Texans in danger — and exposed the corrupt and parasitic nature of the energy industry in oil-rich Texas.

Things are surreal here in Texas right now. From Dallas to San Antonio, century-old low temperature records were shattered almost every day this week. The state is blanketed in snow and ice, and the power grid has failed.

What began Sunday morning as an exciting novelty — six inches of snow in Central Texas — has devolved over the week into something more sinister. Four million Texans are now without power, many of them unable to drive on roads covered in ice and made impassable by snowfall.

Texas was “seconds and minutes” away from catastrophic months long blackouts, officials say

The worst case scenario: Demand for power overwhelms the supply of power generation available on the grid, causing equipment to catch fire, substations to blow and power lines to go down.

If the grid had gone totally offline, the physical damage to power infrastructure from overwhelming the grid can take months to repair, said Bernadette Johnson, senior vice president of power and renewables at Enverus, an oil and gas software and information company headquartered in Austin.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•Green-Scam

In vow to protect campus free speech, Quebec premier joins ‘war on woke’

Quebec Premier François Legault has steered his government toward yet another divisive ideological debate by declaring his intention to move swiftly to protect campus free speech from anti-racism activists.

The contentious part of this debate is not the merits of academic freedom per se. It’s widely accepted that scholars should be able to debate ideas without fear of repercussion from the powerful, or the popular.

Things turn controversial when it comes to identifying what, exactly, is threatening this ideal.

“Anti-Racism” is what they call anti-white bigotry nowadays.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

WTF?

That sinking feeling

Dog meets bat

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•WTF?

How Facebook became so powerful in news

On Thursday, millions of Australians woke up to find a drastically different version of Facebook – one devoid of any news.

Overnight, Facebook banned Australian users from sharing or viewing news content on the platform – in response to a proposed law that would make tech giants pay for such content.

Facebook has, in just a matter of years, established itself as the place where many get their news. And the platform’s outsized influence on how some newsrooms make editorial and hiring decisions has led to it being described as “the absent editor in the room”.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•facebook, facebook is evil

Rex Murphy: As Texas winter storm shows, hurling public money at renewable energy is pure folly

It is time that the brand of environmentalism that travels under the cloak of global warming apocalypse drops its halo. Environmentalism, the brand, Global Warming the banner, is pure politics. GW partisans are as hard and as cynical and as manipulative as the most corroded politicians.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•Green-Scam

China Targets America’s Rare Earth Vulnerability

WASHINGTON—China is reportedly looking into curbing the export of rare-earth minerals to the United States, which may become a new source of friction between the two countries.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in January proposed draft controls on the production and export of rare-earth minerals and provided 30 days for public comment.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Iran: The Mullah’s Pursuit of Obtaining Nuclear Weapons

In spite of the Iranian leaders’ claim that their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, evidence reveals that the Iranian regime has long sought to acquire nuclear weapons.

A recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency pointed out that “Samples taken from two sites during inspections in the fall by the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) contained traces of radioactive material”.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Iranian Nuclear Capability, Islam, Islam and violence

Utah School District Stops Book Program After Trans Tale Told to Third Graders

Parents whose children attend an elementary school in Utah have pushed back after a teacher read a book to third graders about a biological girl who wants to live as a boy.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2021February 18, 2021•0•"They really do want your children", Big Tranny