Michael Crichton pointed out that two 20th century scientific theories, eugenics and Lysenkoism, were broadly accepted by the expert community not because they predicted anything accurately but as a result of becoming too politically prestigious to dispute.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Why the cleverest man in the world was wrong
In 1950, Bertrand Russell published an essay entitled The Future of Mankind, which opens with a stunning prediction.
Kerry doesn’t follow his own rules because he doesn’t believe climate rhetoric
Last week, a 2019 video clip resurfaced showing climate envoy John Kerry’s attempt to reconcile his beliefs about climate change with his practice of flying around the world in private jets.
Asked whether his carbon-spewing private aircraft is an “environmental way to travel,” Kerry responded thus: “It’s the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle.”
“There Is No Modern Precedent”: American Murder Rate Soars 30% In 2020
Many Americans probably aren’t surprised to learn that 2020 was one of the most violent years in recent memory, a solid break with the decades-long trend of lower national crime rates (with certain stubborn exceptions among bombed out rust-belt cities…and Baltimore). In addition to BLM marches across the nation that enabled waves of looting, along with more than a dozen killed, 2020 was, generally speaking, a year of unrest as millions of Americans, trapped inside their own homes, lashed out.
If the New War on Terror Is Fought Like the Last One…
CIA agent Kevin Carroll wants a new war on terror. He wrote Monday: “We defeated al Qaeda and can do the same to the fascist thugs who attacked our democracy last month. But only if we take similar hard measures against the enemy within.” Trump supporters were offended by this, but it’s actually the best idea anyone has had since Donald Trump decided to go down that escalator and run for president.
Citing China’s ‘Genocidal Campaign,’ MPs Demand Relocation of Beijing Olympics
More than a dozen federal lawmakers from all parties are calling for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be moved outside China, citing a “genocidal campaign” by its government against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities.
An open letter signed by 13 MPs, a half−dozen Quebec politicians, and others warns that participating in the Beijing Olympics would serve to validate a regime they say is perpetuating crimes against humanity within its own borders.
Oh Great. Now you’ve made Justin cry.
Cuba opens up its economy to private businesses
Cuba has announced it will allow private businesses to operate in most sectors, in what is a major reform to its state-controlled economy.
Labour Minister Marta Elena Feito said the list of authorised activities had expanded from 127 to more than 2,000.
Only a minority of sectors would be reserved for the state, she said.
The communist country’s economy has been hit hard by the pandemic and US sanctions introduced by the Trump administration.
Turkish President Erdogan says there is ‘no such thing as LGBT’
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said there is ‘no such thing as LGBT’ after activists clashed with police during a month-long protest at an Istanbul university.
‘The LGBT, there is no such thing,’ Erdoğan said during a televised address to his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK) on Wednesday.
‘This country is… moral, and it will walk to the future with these values.’
Canada’s defence minister won’t say if he told PM, cabinet about Vance allegations in 2018
Canadian defence minister Harjit Sajjan refused to say whether he told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or his cabinet of allegations of inappropriate behaviour levelled at former chief of defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance after he was alerted to the military chief’s alleged behaviour in 2018.
During an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, Sajjan said he was unable to discuss what was said between him and an ombudsman in 2018 for confidentiality reasons, adding that he didn’t want to “undermine” the trust of the women who had already come forward with allegations.
The disconnect of Davos Man
The only thing messier than a barely regulated internet is one regulated by the people who would like to regulate it
You may have missed Ursula von der Leyen’s big speech at Davos last week. Most people did. Perhaps because Davos was a more low-key affair than normal this year.
Ordinarily the annual summit of the World Economic Forum allows various world leaders to jet into the Swiss Alps in order to lecture the rest of us on the virtues of zero carbon. But this year the head of the Forum — Klaus Schwab — greeted his guests virtually and alone. Welcoming the president of the European Commission down the line, the two reminisced about last year’s summit and such pleasures as being lectured by Greta Thunberg.
The Left and ‘Religious Extremism’
Here we go again.
In its quest to narrow free speech and neutralize its political opponents, the Left is whipping up hysteria about “extremism” raging across the land. This hyperbole is designed to lay the groundwork for the persecution of the philosophically and religiously conservative. The term “extremist” is thrown around very loosely, covering everybody from “libertarians” to “Christian nationalists.” The latter group is the subject of increasingly frenzied discussions on cable TV and in dominant newspapers. Sometimes reporters lengthen the description of the group to “white Christian nationalists” to make it sound even more sinister. All of this inflammatory talk, naturally, comes from the same liberals who decry the “intemperate rhetoric” of Trump and normally scold others for “baseless claims.”
Lincoln Project Coming Unglued
Regardless if the you now support the immediately former president or not, if you’re a Republican and voted for him last November, then the news that the Quislings at the Lincoln Project are falling out with each other is welcome schadenfreude.
Though the tag on them as “grifters” is a bit absurd. They’re political consultants, as I was for twenty years. Like doctors and lawyers, they get clients, work with those clients, get paid, and move on to other clients. It’s the nature of the job. And many political consultants consistently work for the Green Party, i.e.- who pays them, again, like doctors and lawyers. So the real reason to despise those guys is because they were on the other side. Not just because they were hired guns.
Will the Trump Successes in the Middle East Survive?
December 22, 2020. 9:30 am. A plane takes off from Ben Gurion Airport in Israel for Morocco’s capitol, Rabat. Economic, political, cultural and strategic agreements between Morocco and Israel are signed for a full normalization of relations between the two countries. Morocco is the fourth Arab Muslim country in 2020 to sign such an agreement with Israel.
The Abraham Accords, solemnly signed on September 15, 2020 at the White House by Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and the United States, set in motion a new peace process that many observers would have considered unimaginable just a few years ago. This new peace process has continued well beyond the 2020 U.S. elections and are at the heart of a broader revolution that has changed the Middle East and the Arab world. It is a revolution that is one of the major achievements of the Trump presidency.
‘UNSEAMLY’ PETER NYGARD: ‘It’s just shocking’
The rumours hung in the air like a bad stench for nearly five decades.
Whispers of lurid sexual kinks, unwanted attention, bullying and intimidation.