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Wednesday, February 16. 2022

Wednesday morning links


Photo:  P.J. O’Rourke was America’s greatest satirist and coolest conservative. For two examples,  Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics and Give War a Chance


 MORGAN STANLEY AND PRINCETON WARNED


 What exactly has happened to the formerly must-read Drudge Report?


 Don’t Trust Movies Named ‘Munich’


 Climate pledges built on flawed emissions data, Post investigation finds - Washington Post


 My parents fled communism decades ago. But at my elite D.C. university, the ideology is alive and well.


Washington Post, New York Times should give back their Pulitzers for Russia-Trump ‘reporting’


 Hillary Clinton Spied on Trump Even After the Election -- and I Think I Know Why


 China's fishing fleets are ruining the oceans


 Biden Administration Kills Israel-to-Europe Gas Pipeline


Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:25 | Comments (16) | Trackbacks (0)

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Mann and East Anglia set the standard for corrupted climate data and governments keep financing appropriate climate research to get the results they need for more power and control.
#1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-02-16 09:50 (Reply)
There is BIG money in the climate scam. Not to mention possibly worldwide power. The goal is to rob the Rich Western countries (i.e. the citizens, you and me) and distribute it among the elite. Not just higher taxes but your property, your retirement, your jobs, your kids property, the land you thought was your country, everything. They probably cannot succeed completely because ironically once they have what they want either Russia or China will take it all from them by force. Basically it is WW III in the making.
#2 Anon on 2022-02-16 10:03 (Reply)
Pretty much true.

With Russia, China and the "Elite" all in on the scam, it has some similarities to O. Henry's "The Man Higher Up" to see who's going to come out on top.
#2.1 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-02-16 10:15 (Reply)
One of my commenters sent this "Last year, P.J. put out "Eat the Rich" as a free pdf, with a new introduction and commentary on what had changed since he wrote it in the 90s." after I posted that Eat The Rich should be a required HS text for why some countries suck, and some don't.
As usual, I can't get around the spam filter to post the link, but it is at American Consequences.
#3 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-02-16 10:09 (Reply)
First Rush Limbaugh, now P.J. O Rourke; I am glad I only paid lip service to cigars.
#3.1 SF jeff on 2022-02-16 15:00 (Reply)
What a surprise: Corrupted science breeds corrupted data gathering from corrupt governments seeking game advantage in a corrupt United Nations scheme.

Funny how nobody is exploring the odd juxtaposition of Old Joe gifting huge revenue sugar plums to the Russians (removing obstacles to Nord Stream and placing obstacles in front of competing pipelines), all while talking tough opposition to armed conflict with the Russians in the Ukraine. Meanwhile Europe gets locked in to long-term dependancy to: Russia. Odd, eh? Maybe it's just me.

China's fleets: I've seen this in action. The factory ship pulls up, the small trawlers emerge and set gill nets, scraping out everything that moves from top to bottom in the water column. It all gets harvested, then it all goes back to the mother ship, to get turned into protein mash for animal feed. Devastating.
#4 Aggie on 2022-02-16 10:14 (Reply)
Ya, but plastic straws.
#4.1 Arty on 2022-02-16 11:02 (Reply)
Science cannot be relative. It must be based on a moral base of Truth and honesty.
#4.2 Jan Peter Blickenstaff on 2022-02-16 13:33 (Reply)
re Drudge

Yeah.

It was once my home page.

I quit going there early in Trump's term as the anti-Trump/anti-conservative drift became increaingly obvious.

One wonders how much his traffic has fallen off in the last 5 or 6 years?

And, one wonders, like everyone else, what brought about such an abrupt change in direction for the site?
#5 feeblemind on 2022-02-16 10:36 (Reply)
Comparing the Drudge Report to Newsweak is unfair to one of them.
#5.1 Useless News and World Distort on 2022-02-16 11:08 (Reply)
Drudge became a multi-millionaire. You can say what you want to about him but he sold out and is living the good life. Did he have an obligation to be sincere in his politics? Hell none of the MSM are. He is no better nor worse than 95% of people in that business?
#5.2 JustMe on 2022-02-16 11:11 (Reply)
Have I got this right? The only pipe-line that Biden approved of, helped the Russians? Now Biden is out saying that he is going to fix the gas price problem in America. Even my liberal Congressman, one who helped with Russia impeachment, is sending me talking points, and polls about high gas prices. Congress is on top of this situation, he assures me. The covid pandemic panic is being ratcheted down. If one didn’t know any better, you might think an election is coming up.
#6 B. Hammer on 2022-02-16 10:42 (Reply)
Some thoughts.

The article isn't clear. I don't understand why our support is so critical. Can't the pipeline be built without US support?

For all the weeping and wailing and gnashishing of teeth, let's not forget that Europe has lots of gas to frack if they ever decide to exploit the resourse.

Perhaps this is all about screwing the Israelis? Jew hatred runs deep in the Democratic Party.
#6.1 feeblemind on 2022-02-16 12:40 (Reply)
Nobody of importance cares if China is raping the oceans. The oceans and environment were only threatened while they could be weaponized by socialists against the west. Now that the west is pretty much socialist the left can quit pretending the oceans are threatened and focus on destroying the remnants of western civilization, such as reliable and cheap energy sources, economies and monetary systems, civil society, food security, healthcare etc. Leftist drumbeating about free speech, freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, questioning authority, my body my choice were all a fraud. Don’t expect to see Green Peace on the oceans with green their rickety trawlers harassing Chinese fishing fleets the way they did fishing vessels from the free world. The war they supposedly waged against harming the oceans was as much an environmental battle as voting rights is a battle for free and fair elections.
#7 Arty on 2022-02-16 10:55 (Reply)
Leftists, socialists, communists, environmentalists (but I repeat myself) are driven by a spirit of rebellion not by principles. They rebel to rebel not to fix anything or improve anything. They will side with tyranny as it is a rebellion against anything Good.
#7.1 Jan Peter Blickenstaff on 2022-02-16 11:16 (Reply)
I liked O'Rouke back in the day but I wouldn't pass the "America's Greatest Satirist" crown from Samuel Clements just yet,
#8 easy on 2022-02-16 19:16 (Reply)

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