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End the China economic delusion

It was once an accepted truth that China’s increased economic trade and participation in international bodies such as the World Trade Organization would benefit everyone.

China and its citizens would benefit through the jobs and wealth earned from their vast export market. Americans and Europeans would benefit from access to an ever-greater array of ever-cheaper goods. Asian, African, and other American nations would benefit from access to both sides of this market and the incentive to replicate a version of China’s export model. And the world’s democracies, the cornerstones of the post-Cold War international order, would benefit from China’s recognition that it would gain more by abiding the rules of the game than by breaking them.

by Blazingcatfur•December 29, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality, while making it easier for them to part with them.
~Vaclav Havel

Last week marked the end of a chaotic semester at Bryn Mawr College, a small women’s liberal arts college located outside Philadelphia. During the final weeks, Bryn Mawr students, including my own child, scrambled to pick up the pieces following a student “strike” that exacerbated the serious preexisting disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. For a period of three weeks, few regular classes were held, activities were suspended, and student life (such as it was) became marked by the same toxic spirit of racism that the strikers claimed to oppose.

by Blazingcatfur•December 29, 2020December 28, 2020•0•Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Test-Monitoring Software Is an Invasion of Privacy

You might remember reading these words in high school or university:

“The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"Surveillance Society"

Is nuclear fusion the answer to the climate crisis?

If all goes as planned, the US will eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions from its electricity sector by 2035 – an ambitious goal set by President-elect Joe Biden, relying in large part on a sharp increase in wind and solar energy generation. That plan may soon get a boost from nuclear fusion, a powerful technology that until recently had seemed far out of reach.

Researchers developing a nuclear fusion reactor that can generate more energy than it consumes have shown in a series of recent papers that their design should work, restoring optimism that this clean, limitless power source will help mitigate the climate crisis.

Like commercially viable nuclear fusion Biden’s climate goals are just the latest version of the “Flying car” or Pig for that matter.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"The Great Reset", Green-Scam

For NBC News, War Is Peace, and Trump’s Historic Peace Deals Are War

Other presidents throughout American history have endured harsh criticism from the press. None of them, however, have faced anything like the relentless, organized hit job that is the establishment media’s coverage of President Trump, featuring not just criticism, but distortion, half-truths and outright lies, all designed to make the American people not just vote against him, but disrespect, despise, and even hate him. In pursuit of this goal, consistency goes out the window, and fairness is but a dim memory. Trump is excoriated for anything and everything he does, even when any remotely fair-minded person would see it as positive. NBC News showed this anew on Tuesday in a “Hot Take” it published about the Israel-Morocco peace agreement.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•Trump Derangement Syndrome

Did Americans Come to Love Big Brother?

Millions of Americans may come to resemble Winston Smith, the defeated hero of Nineteen Eighty-Four, who at last accepts the calm.

In less than a month, there will likely be no more President Trump for the media to obsess over. No more false stories about him overfeeding koi fish or headlines screeching that Trump told Americans to inject bleach to combat COVID-19. No more Trump-fixated media worries over how to best accentuate bad news and downplay good.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"Surveillance Society", Big Brother

Ghislaine Maxwell is denied bail for SECOND time despite offering $28.5M

Ghislaine Maxwell has been denied bail for a second time on Monday after a judge ruled that she remained a ‘flight risk’.

Judge Alison Nathan said that nothing submitted to the federal court in New York by Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam had changed her original decision.

Judge Nathan was unmoved by the $28.5 million bail package that Maxwell and her husband Scott Borgerson offered to the court.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•Crime

Vaccines, economy shape potential platforms ahead of possible 2021 election

For all the bluster among federal political leaders about not wanting an election any time soon, the political truth is as cold as a winter’s wind: the potential for one is a reality in 2021.

For now, political parties say getting through the long dark winter without the health-care system collapsing due to COVID-19 is a priority, as is ensuring vaccines quickly and effectively reach all parts of the country.

The Great Reset Election.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•Canada

How many times has David Menzies been assaulted this year?

David Menzies and Andrew Chapados looked back at the many, many times David was assaulted on the job in the past year.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•WTF?

Families plead for help as coronavirus outbreaks worsen at Toronto long-term care homes

Family members of residents in Toronto’s long-term care homes are pleading for more government support as deadly outbreaks continue to surge amid the second wave of COVID-19.

There are active outbreaks in 162 LTC homes according to the province’s latest count, which represents just over a quarter of all facilities in Ontario.

Active cases have now reached 1,075 among residents and 967 among LTC staff.

Those figures have been on a steep and steady climb since late August, when there was briefly only a single LTC resident in all of Ontario with a confirmed case of COVID-19.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

WTF?

Rally in Baluchistan

Drag

Mom’s vehicle?

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•WTF?

The Liberal Lockdown Playbook: What’s Next?

They’re bad for the country, but good for the Left. So expect more of the same.

Count me among the Pollyannas who was sure that when the election was done the pandemic would be “done,” too. November 4 would dawn bright and clear, the thunderheads of contagion looming on the horizon dissipated by a dry air mass of political reality.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Tell Only Lies – Americans are increasingly afraid to express themselves honestly.

The late Joseph P. Overton of the Mackinac Center stated that an idea must fall within a certain range of acceptability to be politically viable. The Overton Window, as this concept has come to be known, describes the range of publicly palatable ideas at a given time, and it applies not only to politicians but to the general public as well.

Recently, however, the rules have changed.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•"Cancel Culture", Freedom of speech

Hungry like the rabbit

Eighty years ago, Bugs Bunny first launched himself on an unsuspecting Elmer J. Fudd

In the darkest hour, there emerged a new light. It was 1940 when the double-barreled shotgun of the world first took aim at a little hole called home. At first, it seemed as if the hole’s inhabitant would be taken in by the old carrot trick. At least he would be careful enough not to stick his neck out. With an unblemished, white-gloved, four fingered hand, he feels around his immediate borders and takes the carrot.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2020December 28, 2020•0•A Little Good News