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Tuesday, June 27. 2023

Tuesday morning links


Book:  The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man by David Von Drehle


 The Atlantic: having choices is bad


 The ultimate score for rich people? “Golden” passports. A few hundred thousand dollars can buy citizenship in some very pretty places.


 “Today,” Blum said, “the abandonment of standardized tests and the diminished importance of grades in the admissions process is a veiled attempt to limit the number of high-achieving Asian Americans.”


How to Think about the Drug Crisis


Problem is addicts do not always want help 


 Why Don’t Solar Panels Work as Well in Heat Waves?


 In Canada, Asking for Evidence Now Counts as ‘Denialism’. Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence


It's the narrative, stupid 


 Facebook said it would restrict all distribution of news in Canada.


 World Health Organization Pushes Sweeping Censorship Treaty. The organization has already launched a “social listening” surveillance program powered by AI


Great 


 Musk's Twitter Faces Millions In Fines After New 'Disinformation' Laws Released In Australia


Government will determine truth


 BlackRock CEO: Never Mind About ESG - "I'm ashamed of being part of this conversation"


 Allowing kids to opt out of drag storytime is a ‘dangerous setback’ for gay rights


 Bud Light sponsors stage at Pride Toronto featuring drag performers in leather and latex


Weird but who cares?


VDH:  What the Left Has Left for America- What the Left now fears most is the revolutionary model it has bequeathed to America—and what might happen if its monstrous creation falls into politically incorrect hands.


 I am confident that you have been anxiously waiting to hear what Barack Obama has to say about the Titan submarine tragedy. 


Ukraine: We don't know what is going on 


 RUSSIA: NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING




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BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink is now saying the term ESG will no longer be used, it's being replaced by the term "conscientious capitalism". I'm not sure what the Chinese characters are for conscientious capitalism, but I'm sure Larry Fink knows. ESG now joins CRT and woman as a term nobody has ever heard of before and has no idea what it could possibly mean.
#1 Jerryskids on 2023-06-27 08:46 (Reply)
Same thing, Fink’s just re-branding like they had to do with global warming/climate change.
#1.1 Hoss on 2023-06-27 20:42 (Reply)
The Atlantic apparently hires 5 year-olds as writers who still want their mommy to take care of them. It has become an embarrassment.

I wouldn't trust the Blackrock CEO to mean what he is saying. Likely he just wants to take the attention off of the ESG stupidity because investors are becoming critical of it.

The WHO and other "world organizations" like the UN need to be evicted and banned from US territory. They are antithetical to American liberty and freedom. Nothing but globalist scams from top to bottom.
#2 ruralcounsel on 2023-06-27 09:08 (Reply)
Police arrest Democratic state senator Joshua Miller for 'keying car with Biden sucks sticker'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12237077/Police-arrest-Democratic-state-senator-Joshua-Miller-keying-car-Biden-sucks-bumper-sticker.html
#3 feeblemind on 2023-06-27 09:26 (Reply)
Wouldn't you know, the Daily Mail in the UK once again reports US news that the corrupt US media will not report.
#3.1 Gringo on 2023-06-27 12:55 (Reply)
Canada and the indigenous graves:

There is a lot of money and special treatment laws at stake. They use these claims, true or false, to force the lawmakers to give them special rights and huge amounts of money. The narrative is too valuable to allow stupid facts to get in the way.
#4 OneGuy on 2023-06-27 10:36 (Reply)
Quite so, I'm afraid.
#4.1 JJM on 2023-06-27 10:53 (Reply)
If these are burial grounds, they would be the only "permanent" ones employed by most Canadian indians. The west coast tribes used "sky burials" (saw photos of same many years ago), and otherwise rather suspect they buried the dead along the trail, so to speak. At any rate, there was not a fuss made over burial sit4es pre-Columbus and for many years after. Even today, where they are graveyards on native reserves, they were not well kept.
As it is, if these were indeed informal cemeteries, I would expect that they were used by the nearby community as well as the school. And we do know there were deaths at the schools and in the surrounding communities; TB was rife and the natives were particularly susceptible to its scourge. "Preventoriums" were set up in Canada at one time to take in native children showing early symptoms of TB with the hope that the best possible treatment of the time (this was before antibiotics) would allow them to overcome TB and survive.
#4.2 Frances on 2023-06-28 23:41 (Reply)
Watch out when they start shifting the language around. It doesn't mean they aren't still up to something, they're just switching the camouflage.

When the Affirmative Action era began, it was with the best of intentions. But weaning is hard for mammals, when the suckling is made easy. Like the Great Society, it's hard to abolish what has been a success, when its failures and problems start to overtake the benefits. It has done what is set out to.

Though far from perfect, we are one of the most tolerant societies around, some say too tolerant. Certain factions within our modern world are clearly intolerant.

But an advanced, technological society such as ours did not arrive here without merit as its primary currency, in a marketplace of openness. Time and time again, things that work replace things that do not, for whatever reason. Perhaps it's time to re-assert the primacy of merit. We are seeing the results of letting other, less merited concepts take precedence over our society, many of them intolerant. Forgo them.
#5 Aggie on 2023-06-27 11:08 (Reply)
"Facebook said it would restrict all distribution of news in Canada."

Not quite. But that overly sensationalist link you gave is hardly a reliable account about what has just happened.

It is true that the foolish C-18 bill was just passed, but our Federal government has now been effectively hoisted by its own petard. The idea was to make social media sites like Facebook pay to place links to Canadian news media stories.

Not being the brightest bunch, our current government in Ottawa didn't quite anticipate the following:

Government (to Facebook): "From now on, if you put links to Canadian news media items on your pages, you're going to have to pay for them."

Facebook: "OK, so we'll just stop putting those links on our pages then."

Government: "Er... oh. [sotto voce] Never though of that."

Those links were delivering thousands of Facebook members to Canadian online news media sites.

A Canadian own goal, if ever there was one. Brought to you by the team of geniuses led by Canada's Only Blackface Prime Minister TM.
#6 JJM on 2023-06-27 11:15 (Reply)
"addicts do not always want help"

All the more reason to make "help" mandatory.

Arrested for any crime and a blood test shows you are on drugs - go to jail for 30 days. A forced reprieve for drugs and alcohol. Get caught again get 30 days again.
#7 OneGuy on 2023-06-27 11:23 (Reply)
Re: Why Don’t Solar Panels Work as Well in Heat Waves?
QUOTE:
…Why Don’t Solar Panels Work as Well in Heat Waves?
Solar panels don’t work well in heat waves due to the temperature-induced decrease in efficiency. As the temperature of the solar panels rises, their power output decreases. During a heat wave, the higher temperatures hinder the panels’ ability to convert sunlight into electricity effectively.


Great! They don't work well at night, when it rains or in the winter. Now they don't work well in the Summer!

QUOTE:
“[The Electric Reliability Council of Texas] (ERCOT) requests Texans to voluntarily conserve power during specific conservation period, if safe to do so,” ERCOT wrote on its website. “ERCOT requests all government agencies (including city and county offices) to implement any and all programs to reduce energy use at their facilities.”


Isn't it interesting how in places where "renewables" are heavily used have the people have to be warned to limit their electricity usage? You would think with all that "extra" low cost electricity being produced, you would be able to use more...
#8 mudbug on 2023-06-27 12:51 (Reply)
Recycling either wind or solar products is a mess and rather contradicts the "environmental" sales pitch of the product even though they have been in use for decades. They need to be charged a reclamation fee similar to what is required of mining companies.
#8.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-06-27 13:04 (Reply)
re The Atlantic: having choices is bad

A First World problem, too much abundance at the grocery store.

The solution? Communism so there is only one choice at the store.

It is an Orwellian argument.
#9 feeblemind on 2023-06-27 13:30 (Reply)
"The solution? Communism so there is only one choice at the store."

And the store is all out of it.
#9.1 JJM on 2023-06-27 15:09 (Reply)
A few years back, my favorite senile socialist, Bernie Sanders, was lamenting the fact that he counted 23 different deodorant offerings in his local drug store. I still remember him blubbering on about there being no need for 23 different varieties of deodorant.

My questions then and now are: How may brands should there be and who gets to decide which ones make the cut? I'm sure Bernie would consider himself the only individual qualified to make such decisions and would be happy to do so, not only for deodorant but for every other consumable good in our vast array of retail stores. If Bernie had his way, I'm sure that the single option stores mentioned in the article would be the only place you could shop in the entire country. After all, it would be for our own good even if we are to ignorant to realize it.

Bernie failed to realize that the choice regarding the number of deodorants has already been made and is being reviewed constantly. By whom, you may ask? By the Free Market and it works just fine. If a particular brand of deodorant appeals to a sufficient number of people, it will find a share of the market. If not, it will disappear, no help from Bernie required.
#9.2 GalwayBoy on 2023-06-27 17:41 (Reply)
"I still remember him blubbering on about there being no need for 23 different varieties of deodorant."

Ask Bernie whether he needs that extra $600,000 lake house in North Hero, Vermont in addition to his place in Burlington or his residence in DC.
#9.2.1 JJM on 2023-06-27 20:53 (Reply)
The Hunt for the Missing Orient Express Trains

This is a poorly written article by an author who is totally ignorant on the subject of railroads. If you can overlook those defects it is pretty interesting.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/06/16/the-hunt-for-the-missing-orient-express-trains/
#10 feeblemind on 2023-06-27 13:34 (Reply)
No prison time for pedophile Portland Antifa member who pleaded guilty to stabbing black conservative at 2020 riot

So what else is new?

Why isn't he called a white supremacist or a racist?

https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-no-prison-time-for-pedophile-portland-antifa-member-who-pleaded-guilty-to-stabbing-black-conservative-at-2020-riot?utm_campaign=64470
#11 feeblemind on 2023-06-27 13:40 (Reply)
No one is above the law, right? Right?

Black female DA recuses her office from prosecuting Antifa and BLM terrorists.
Maybe she should be fired?

https://pjmedia.com/columns/chris-queen/2023/06/26/district-attorney-recuses-her-office-from-prosecuting-atlanta-domestic-terrorists-n1706376
#11.1 Zachinoff on 2023-06-27 14:58 (Reply)
solar panels: I live in northern California and have solar panels for five years. Save a fortune in electric bills and off the grid at least for electricity.
works fine in hot weather, in fact better, because we have longer days. And have a Tesla. So charging for free.
#12 ns on 2023-06-27 18:32 (Reply)
Were your panels subsidized or all on you?
#12.1 louie miller on 2023-06-27 23:49 (Reply)

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