Monday, April 18, 2022
What do despots do when the economy sucks? War!-----Chinese Slowdown, Much More Than COVID - ZubuBrothers
Chinese Slowdown, Much More Than COVID - ZubuBrothers link
- The most recent macroeconomic figures show that the Chinese slowdown is much more severe than expected and not only attributable to the covid-19 lockdowns.
26 of 31 China mainland provinces have rising covid cases and the fear of a Shanghai-style lockdown is enormous.
...We must remember that there are two ways in which the Chinese government “boosts” real GDP: By publishing a low inflation and GDP deflator figure and by massively increasing credit and infrastructure spending.
...We must remember that there are two ways in which the Chinese government “boosts” real GDP: By publishing a low inflation and GDP deflator figure and by massively increasing credit and infrastructure spending.
However, those two cannot disguise the importance of the weakening of the Chinese economy, because it is now structural.
The collapse of the real estate bubble is the biggest problem...Read all.
The collapse of the real estate bubble is the biggest problem...Read all.
Brief: Biden Releases 756K Border Crossers into U.S. Since Taking Office
Brief: Biden Releases 756K Border Crossers into U.S. Since Taking Office:
Specifically, DHS has released more than 756,109 border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities from January 21, 2021, to February 28, 2022, the brief states. This is larger than the resident population of Boston, about equal to the size of Denver, Colorado, and larger than the population of Detroit, Michigan.
Releases by month are as follows:
International suicide-----Energy transition in agony - Irina Slav on energy
Energy transition in agony - Irina Slav on energy link"Lithium prices have soared by close to 500% over the past year.
Stocks at the London Metals Exchange have dropped to the lowest since records began in 1997.
...According to a recent report by the Financial Times, LME inventories of aluminium, copper, nickel, and zinc have dropped by as much as 70% over the past 12 months.
...The EU is eyeing higher wind and solar targets to reduce its use of Russian hydrocarbons.
...According to a recent report by the Financial Times, LME inventories of aluminium, copper, nickel, and zinc have dropped by as much as 70% over the past 12 months.
...The EU is eyeing higher wind and solar targets to reduce its use of Russian hydrocarbons.
- The UK plans to have 50 GW of offshore wind capacity within eight years and increase solar capacity fourfold from the current 14 GW by 2035.
- Would anyone care to guess how many copper or iron ore mines there are in the EU and the UK?..."
Anthony Fauci Speaks About Shanghai and Lockdowns - Louder With Crowder
Anthony Fauci Speaks About Shanghai and Lockdowns - Louder With Crowder: "[China's Approach was the strictest lockdown that you'd never be able to implement in the United States, although that prevents the spread of infection."
Yes, I see. Fauci, the man our president blindly listens to, laments that what China is doing could "never" happen here. Though, it's effective.
"Remember early on they were saying, and I think accurately, that they were doing better than almost anybody else but a lockdown has its consequences."
Fauci still thinks China got it right on the pandemic.
Easter Egg Hunts and Deluded Political Ideologies - Intellectual Takeout
Easter Egg Hunts and Deluded Political Ideologies - Intellectual Takeout link
"...Last Saturday, my husband and I took our four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son to an Easter egg hunt sponsored by a local school.
"...Last Saturday, my husband and I took our four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son to an Easter egg hunt sponsored by a local school.
To our amazement, the kids had to hand all the eggs they’d found back to the organizer, who redistributed an equal number to everyone.
In other words, this was a Communist Easter egg hunt!
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” never felt so real.
- The worst part was that my four-year-old was already spontaneously sharing her eggs with her little brother. He was too small to get any of his own. But she loves him.
- And then her selflessness was derailed by coerced sharing. Moreover, she’d been targeting the pink eggs when she was searching. In the centralized redistribution, she only got blue ones. She complained for hours afterward.
While I’m sad for her, I’m also glad her first significant experience with Communism was negative.
If she ever flirts with the ideology when she’s older, I’ll remind her of this day..."
Must read!!-----Complicit in depravity - Melanie Phillips
Complicit in depravity - Melanie Phillips link 
- If true, the Biden team's reported grovelling to Tehran is beyond shocking
"I have written many times — as here, here, and here — about the astonishing desperation of the Biden administration to make a deal with Iran over its nuclear programme.
...The Biden administration was ready to de-list the IRGC if Iran would agree not to target Americans implicated in the killing of IRGC-Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by a US armed drone in January 2020.
...“That proposal has been rejected by the Iranians. Iran has come up with a counterproposal that the US is now considering”.
Just consider the implications of this...Read all.
...The Biden administration was ready to de-list the IRGC if Iran would agree not to target Americans implicated in the killing of IRGC-Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by a US armed drone in January 2020.
...“That proposal has been rejected by the Iranians. Iran has come up with a counterproposal that the US is now considering”.
Just consider the implications of this...Read all.
They wrecked our country for...what??-----Who died of Covid in Minnesota? | Power Line
Who died of Covid in Minnesota? | Power Line link
"...Greg undertook the review of all 2020 and 2021 Minnesota death certificates which bear the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code for COVID-19 (U07.1).
Having reviewed all 10,903 such certificates, Greg’s analysis supports the conclusion that the vast majority of Minnesotans was not at serious risk of death from COVID-19 and that the campaign of fear and intimidation was simply wrong.
Greg’s viral Alpha News column setting forth his analysis is “Who died of COVID-19 in Minnesota?”
Subhead: “Only 291, or 2.67% of the 10,903 certificates we examined, were ‘COVID only’ with no comorbidity listed.”...Read all.
Does Joe Biden need to eat a Snickers or is he just OLD? - TheBlaze
Does Joe Biden need to eat a Snickers or is he just OLD? - TheBlaze:
According to Joe Biden, Putin's invasion of Ukraine has driven up gas prices and food prices worldwide. The president claims that 70 percent of the increase in inflation was the consequence of Putin's price hike because of the impact on oil prices.
However, the notable thing about Biden's speech is less about the words he said and more about how he said them.
The Other Fednapping Plot
Instapundit--The Other Fednapping Plot link
Defense attorneys successfully argued that multiple FBI agents and informants attempted to induce the men to commit the crimes and blasted the government in closing arguments.
“That’s unacceptable in America,” Fox’s attorney, Christopher Gibbons, told the jury on April 1. “That’s not how it works. They don’t make terrorists so we can arrest them.”...
It’s pretty clear that the FBI was electioneering here, as it was in pushing the now-exploded Russian-collusion claims. If you’re looking for an actual insurrection, it occurred with in the FBI and the political class generally, who abused their power specifically to get rid of a democratically elected president in order to install one who was manifestly unqualified for the job.--Posted by
History for April 18
History for April 18 - On-This-Day.com
Clarence Darrow 1857 - Attorney, famous for his part in the Scopes 'monkey trial'
- 1775 - American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode though the towns of Massachusetts giving the warning that the Regulars were coming out.
- 1847 - U.S. troops defeated almost 17,000 Mexican soldiers commanded by Santa Anna at Cerro Gordo. (Mexican-American War)
- 1906 - San Francisco, CA, was hit with an earthquake. The original death toll was cited at about 700. Later information indicated that the death toll may have been 3 to 4 times the original estimate.
- 1938 - Superman made his debut when he appeared in the first issue of Action Comics. (Cover date June 1938)
- 1942 - James H. Doolittle and his squadron, from the USS Hornet, raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
- 1945 - American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was 44 years old.
- 1989 - Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Twitter board adopts 'poison pill' to keep Elon Musk from executing takeover - TheBlaze
Twitter board adopts 'poison pill' to keep Elon Musk from executing takeover - TheBlaze:
The board of directors at Twitter, Inc. announced on Friday their adoption of a limited duration shareholder rights plan, commonly known as a "poison pill," to prevent tech billionaire Elon Musk from taking over the company.
In a press release, the social media platform said it had adopted the plan "following an unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire Twitter."
Anonymous Democrats go behind Sen. Dianne Feinstein's back to complain about her mental fitness - TheBlaze
Anonymous Democrats go behind Sen. Dianne Feinstein's back to complain about her mental fitness - TheBlaze:
Four U.S. senators, three former Feinstein staffers, and one California Democratic member of Congress spoke to the paper about Feinstein's reportedly declining memory and questionable mental fitness for office. These individuals say that at 88 years old, Feinstein is entirely dependent on her staff doing most of the work required to represent 40 million Californians in the Senate.
Guy who lives in walled city, surrounded by security, calls the rest of us racists.-----The Pope Goes Woke on Good Friday: 'We Are Racists, and That Is Bad'
The Pope Goes Woke on Good Friday: 'We Are Racists, and That Is Bad'
"Oops, he did it again. Pope Francis, who, throughout his papacy, has done a lot more political “activating” than “poping,” declared during a Good Friday interview that the West is guilty of widespread “racism,” while also claiming migrants are “subdivided” by skin color and country of origin.
And that’s just for starters.
During the lengthy interview on Italian television, as noted by Breitbart: “We are racists, we are racists.”
During the lengthy interview on Italian television, as noted by Breitbart: “We are racists, we are racists.”
There’s first-class, second-class, skin color, [whether] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed.
We are racists, we are racists. And this is bad.
The problem of the refugees is a problem that Jesus suffered too because he was a migrant and a refugee in Egypt when he was a child, to escape death. How many of them are suffering to escape death!...read all.
Yes. The media hates YOU!-----Good Friday: NBC Chats With Leftist in ‘Thank God for Abortion’ Shirt
Good Friday: NBC Chats With Leftist in ‘Thank God for Abortion’ Shirt link
"NBC’s Today show decided that the best way to mark Good Friday was to talk to a radical, left-wing activist wearing a t-shirt that read, “Thank God for Abortion.”
"NBC’s Today show decided that the best way to mark Good Friday was to talk to a radical, left-wing activist wearing a t-shirt that read, “Thank God for Abortion.”
It was part of hysterical coverage across all three network morning shows bemoaning an “abortion crackdown” across the country, with Florida’s new pro-life legislation being the latest skirmish in the “battle over abortion rights...Read all.
Elon Musk fires back at Saudi prince with massive Twitter stake after takeover offer rejected - TheBlaze
Elon Musk fires back at Saudi prince with massive Twitter stake after takeover offer rejected - TheBlaze:
Elon Musk has fired back at a billionaire Saudi prince who is one of Twitter's largest shareholders after the royal rejected his offer to buy his share of Twitter.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company, a Riyadh-based conglomerate, said Thursday that Musk's offer to buy Twitter for $43 billion was too small.
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