Friday, March 18, 2022
Looming food shortages is world's next 'slow-moving disaster'
Looming food shortages is world's next 'slow-moving disaster' Glenn H. Reynolds
That problem is shortages of food and fertilizer brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions enacted by the West in response.
- Record inflation is leading to food shortages on shelves across the US.
That problem is shortages of food and fertilizer brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions enacted by the West in response.
- Ukraine is a major wheat producer, but war is likely to ensure a poor spring planting and harvest. Russia is also a major grower, but sanctions and war will prevent it from exporting to most of the world.
- Russia is also a major manufacturer of fertilizer; in fact, it is the world’s largest. Second on the list is . . . China, a nation aligned with Russia and notably unfriendly to the United States and the West. (Canada is a distant third.)
... Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s response to concerns about fertilizer and food shortages: “Maybe sacrifices are necessary.”
You can rest assured Vilsack won’t be the one making them...Read all!!
Another democrat bailout for the rich-----Student Loan Pause Mostly Helping Doctors, Lawyers
Student Loan Pause Mostly Helping Doctors, Lawyers
"...In reality, it’s a taxpayer-financed bailout for relatively affluent college graduates. (Who, in a pure coincidence, overwhelmingly vote Democrat).
...And the pause has mostly benefitted doctors and lawyers, the Committee reports in a new analysis.
...That’s right: The supposedly “progressive” student debt pause during the pandemic has mostly benefited doctors, lawyers, and those with advanced degrees.
...And the pause has mostly benefitted doctors and lawyers, the Committee reports in a new analysis.
...That’s right: The supposedly “progressive” student debt pause during the pandemic has mostly benefited doctors, lawyers, and those with advanced degrees.
All at the working-class taxpayer’s expense…
...Canceling student debt sounds progressive, but is actually a taxpayer bailout for the affluent...Read all.
...Canceling student debt sounds progressive, but is actually a taxpayer bailout for the affluent...Read all.
Saudi Arabia weighs accepting yuan instead of dollars in oil sales with China - TheBlaze
Saudi Arabia weighs accepting yuan instead of dollars in oil sales with China - TheBlaze:
The U.S. dollar may be on its way out as the global reserve currency.
Saudi Arabia is actively engaging in negotiations with Chinese officials to price oil sales to China in yuan instead of the U.S. dollar, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Why is America OK with this?-----Election Manipulation Unmasked: NY Times Finally Admits Hunter Biden Emails Were Authentic, Not ‘Russian Disinformation’
Election Manipulation Unmasked: NY Times Finally Admits Hunter Biden Emails Were Authentic, Not ‘Russian Disinformation’
Prof. Jacobson: “Biden sold his VP office to enrich his family, it was the biggest story of the 2020 election, and the media, big tech, and Biden lied about it and covered it up – it made a difference in the outcome. Biden is President because of this manipulation and collusion.”
Undoubtedly one of the most shameful moments in the history of American journalism came in October 2020, when just a few weeks before the presidential election Joe Biden-supporting Democrats, media outlets including NPR, CNN, the WaPo, Politico, and others colluded with Big Tech to suppress the NY Post’s solid investigative reporting (backed up by additional reporting from the Daily Caller) on the Hunter Biden laptop and the emails that were contained on it that raised major concerns about influence peddling.
...Here are some examples of the media doing their part to debunk/suppress/falsely label the story...much here, read all!
...Here are some examples of the media doing their part to debunk/suppress/falsely label the story...much here, read all!
What Happened On March 18 In History?
What Happened On March 18 In History?
1837 - Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States
- 1766 - American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
- 1893 - Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
- 1915 - World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
- 1942 - The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
- 1968 - Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Comedy Icon John Cleese Has Mic Taken for Mocking Reparations
Comedy Icon John Cleese Has Mic Taken for Mocking Reparations:
Riffing on an alleged joke about colonialism by Daily Show correspondent Dulcé Sloan, who is black, Cleese is said to have remarked that people “forget the British Empire was the basic political unit of organization for 6,000 years – the British didn’t start [colonising].”
Indeed, colonisation and empire-building was conducted not only by the British, French, Russians, and other European peoples, but by non-white civilisations such as that of the Arabs, which spread by conquest from the Arabian peninsula through the Levant, North Africa, and — for a time — Spain and Portugal, and that of the Turks, who originate in Central Asia but have now almost totally displaced the predominantly Greek, Christian civilisation of Anatolia and East Thrace, including the former Constantinople — lending credence to the old adage that “many a true word is said in jest”.
Adam Carolla: Here’s the Real Reason Kids Were Forced to Mask in Schools
Adam Carolla: Here’s the Real Reason Kids Were Forced to Mask in Schools
"...According to comedian Adam Carolla, the reason kids were forced to mask in schools for two years had nothing to do with protecting them from COVID-19, but actually with making them “good subjects.”
...This kills sick people, old people, obese people, comorbidity people. It doesn’t ostensibly affect kids; they’re in the safest category,” Carolla pointed out.
Carolla believes it had nothing to do with the virus and instead likened it to crate training...
...He elaborated, “You cannot train a dog when it’s middle-aged. You got to get them when they’re puppies. And get them trained up and into that crate. And that’s what we’re doing with kids. Because this will not be the last emergency. And it will not be the last time the government and the governor and the mayor need to exact their power.”...Read all!
A Decline in Reading Skills Makes Geese for the Plucking | Intellectual Takeout
A Decline in Reading Skills Makes Geese for the Plucking | Intellectual Takeout
"A teacher-friend of mine recently expressed sadness over the stagnation of her students.
Before the pandemic she could see students steadily gaining ground.
"A teacher-friend of mine recently expressed sadness over the stagnation of her students.
Now she was seeing zero progress on their tests—and maybe even some declines.
...The effects of the pandemic are beginning to show up, and the results aren’t pretty, particularly in the area of reading for younger students.
- The New York Times reports, “If children do not become competent readers by the end of elementary school, the risks are ‘pretty dramatic,’” according to Dr. Tiffany Hogan, the director of a speech and language literacy lab in Boston.
- “Poor readers are more likely to drop out of high school, earn less money as adults and become involved in the criminal justice system.”
- But Hogan overlooks one of the biggest dangers facing this up-and-coming population that can’t read: they will be all the more easily taken in by propaganda, sucked onto the conveyor belt of yes-men that do anything the media and government tell them to do...Read all.
Senate Passes Bill to Make Daylight Savings Permanent - Louder With Crowder
Senate Passes Bill to Make Daylight Savings Permanent - Louder With Crowder:
"I know this is not the most important issue confronting America but it's one of those issues where there's a lot of agreement, and I think a lot of people wonder why it took so long to get here. My hope is that after we're done here today that the house will take it up that the house will pass it the president will sign it... pardon the pun but this is an idea whose time has come."
Amazon Relocates 1,800 Workers Due To Seattle’s Skyrocketing Violent Crime Rates
Amazon Relocates 1,800 Workers Due To Seattle’s Skyrocketing Violent Crime Rates
- “Given recent incidents near 3rd (Ave) and Pine (St), we’re providing employees currently at that location with alternative office space elsewhere”
Citing skyrocketing violent crime in downtown Seattle, Washington, Amazon has “temporarily” arranged for its employees at that location to work elsewhere...
Apparently the move is only “temporary” because those progressive policies will kick in any day now and the glorious Utopia will rise from the ashes of Seattle’s bear-hug embrace of radical far-left policies that have left parts of their city not just uninhabitable by anyone other than criminals but practical “no go” zones for law-abiding workers...Read all!!
Biden administration blocks July 4 fireworks at Mount Rushmore for second year in a row - TheBlaze
Biden administration blocks July 4 fireworks at Mount Rushmore for second year in a row - TheBlaze:
The Biden administration is preventing South Dakota from putting on a fireworks display at Mount Rushmore for the second year in a row, in a decision harshly criticized by Republican Gov. Kristi Noem.
In a March 14 letter, the National Park Service informed the South Dakota Department of Tourism that a request for a permit to put on the fireworks display was denied. "After careful consideration, the NPS has determined that we are unable to grant your request for this permit to hold a special event with fireworks at the Memorial," the letter stated.
Why do allow government money to go to those goons?-----Police called to deal with liberal protesters who closed down Yale Law FREE SPEECH debate | Daily Mail Online
Police called to deal with liberal protesters who closed down Yale Law FREE SPEECH debate | Daily Mail Online
"Police are forced to protect conservative debater at Yale Law FREE SPEECH event from woke students shouting 'I'll fight you b*tch': Victim warns 'future of legal profession in America is in dire straits'
- Nearly 120 Yale Law School students revolted during a free speech debate last week because they didn't like conservative panelist Kristen Waggoner
- The students screamed profanities at Waggoner, including one who threatened they would 'literally fight you, b***h'
- They also chanted 'protect trans kids' and 'shame, shame' throughout the law school building after police officers escorted the speakers out of the building
- After exiting the event they began to stomp, shout, clap, sing and pound on the hall walls
- The protesters alleged their actions were execution of free speech despite the fact that they violated university policies regarding free speech
After the dust settles and the virtue-signaling loses its novelty value, Putin will have won.
"Pay attention when Mr. Goldman is speaking.
"Zelenskyy now accepts Ukraine neutrality, Lavrov accepts Ukraine sovereignty (minus some Russian control of Donbass, not to mention Crimea, I assume). That's the shape of a compromise, along the lines of Minsk II.
As Steve Bryen has been writing, that was the only basis for a negotiated solution before, and remains so now.
Russia originally proposed Minsk II;
the French and Germans signed on;
Washington opposed it.
- For all the blather about Russian Army incompetence, it looks like Putin is accomplishing his objective: Beat up Zelenskyy until he accepts Russia's original terms.
Of course, if you believe that Putin is a new Stalin who wants to restore the Russian Empire, his army hardly seems up to the job.
But if Putin's war aims are highly focused (keep Ukraine out of NATO and missiles far from the Russian border), he seems to be succeeding.
The cost well may be higher than he expected, but he can still sell oil and gas -- the Netherlands gas price has fallen by half since the crisis peak.
After the dust settles and the virtue-signaling loses its novelty value, Putin will have won."
How life as a trucker devolved into a dystopian nightmare
How life as a trucker devolved into a dystopian nightmare
"Today, long-haul truckers are some of the most closely monitored workers in the world.
"Today, long-haul truckers are some of the most closely monitored workers in the world.
Cameras and sensors dot their trucks, watching the road, the brakes and even the driver’s eye movements. Once, when his truck’s cabin heater broke, Mr. Knope was forced to sleep in freezing temperatures for several days while traveling across northern Ohio and New York because an automated system made sure his engine was turned off at night.
The company told him there was no way to override the system..."Read all.
Biden's Remarks at 'Equal Pay' Event Were a Gaffe-Filled Dumpster Fire
Biden's Remarks at 'Equal Pay' Event Were a Gaffe-Filled Dumpster Fire
"Right out of the gate, President Biden sought to explain who wasn't appearing at the event with him saying "there's been a little change in the arrangement of who's on the stage because of the First Lady's husband contracted COVID, but look at this room and what you see," Biden stated before someone off-stage in the White House pointed out that the "First Lady's husband" is...Joe Biden.
Uncomfortable laughter from the crowd followed as Biden said "that's right, she's fine, that's me that's not together." No kidding.
Biden continued by referring to Doug Emhoff as "the Second Lady" before correcting himself with (also wrong) "First Gentleman," listing two additional incorrect monikers for Kamala Harris' husband who is in fact the Second Gentleman and not the husband of the president nor the vice president's wife, nor a lady...Read all.
Biden continued by referring to Doug Emhoff as "the Second Lady" before correcting himself with (also wrong) "First Gentleman," listing two additional incorrect monikers for Kamala Harris' husband who is in fact the Second Gentleman and not the husband of the president nor the vice president's wife, nor a lady...Read all.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs bill legalizing permit-less concealed carry - TheBlaze
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs bill legalizing permit-less concealed carry - TheBlaze:
The newly signed Senate Bill 215 will go into effect 90 days after being signed into law and will allow people 21 or older to carry a concealed firearm unless they are prohibited from doing so by state or federal law.
With the passing of this law, Ohio became the 23rd state in the country to allow permit-less concealed carry.
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