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Europe Turned an Energy Crisis Into a Green Energy Sprint
Europe Turned an Energy Crisis Into a Green Energy Sprint Credit…Ibrahim Rayintakath This was supposed to be a winter of energy crisis in Europe. Beginning last spring, not long after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fear of gas shortages spread across the continent, along with fears of what might follow. The coming winter crunch […]
The New York Times is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
The New York Times is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the cold grayness with small patches of snow littering the frozen ground. As light snow began to fall, I felt a deep mourning in my soul as a memory came to me of another snowy day […]
Loss of Russian Oil Leaves a Void Not Easily Filled, Straining Market
Loss of Russian Oil Leaves a Void Not Easily Filled, Straining Market Global production will take time to ramp up, so the U.S. and other buyers will chase limited supplies, creating upheaval unseen in decades. A Rosneft refinery. Russia is the world’s No. 3 oil producer, after the United States and Saudi Arabia.Credit…Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg HOUSTON […]
The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It.
The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It. Pandemic-related product shortages — from computer chips to construction materials — were supposed to be resolved by now. Instead, the world has gained a lesson in the ripple effects of disruption. Kirsten Gjesdal stopped ordering some products for her kitchen supply store in Brookings, […]
“The Enemies of the State”: The New York Times and The Fluidity of Advocacy Journalism
“The Enemies of the State”: The New York Times and The Fluidity of Advocacy Journalism We have been discussing the rise of advocacy journalism and the rejection of objectivity in journalism schools. The New York Times has been at the forefront of this shift away from traditional reporting but has increasingly found that the fluidity of advocacy […]
Leaked Documents Show How China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus
Leaked Documents Show How China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus As the coronavirus spread in China, the government stage-managed what appeared on the domestic internet to make the virus look less severe and the authorities more capable, according to thousands of leaked directives and other files. In the early hours of […]
Custer’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming
Custer’s Last Stand Meets Global Warming Photograph Source: Charles Marion Russell – Public Domain A recent article in Arctic News on the outlook for global warming foresees a frightening scenario lurking right around the corner. Hopefully, the article’s premise of impending runaway global warming (“RGW”) is off the mark, by a lot. More to the […]
Cascading Cat Litter
Cascading Cat Litter And so now Julian Assange of Wikileaks has been dragged out of his sanctuary in the London embassy of Ecuador for failing to clean his cat’s litter box. Have you ever cleaned a litter box? The way we always did it was to spread some newspaper — say, The New York Times — on the floor, […]
A Place of Your Own
A Place of Your Own Do you know your place? In these days of hysterical Wokesterism, the question would surely provoke a riot of cowbell-clanging Antifa cadres, fainting spells in the congressional black caucus, and gravely equivocal op-eds from David Brooks of The New York Times. Yet it’s a central, unacknowledged quandary of our time that so […]
Holiday Doings and Undoings
Holiday Doings and Undoings Somehow I doubt that this Christmas will win the Bing Crosby star of approval. Rather, we see the financial markets breaking under the strain of sustained institutionalized fraud, and the social fabric tearing from persistent systemic political dishonesty. It adds up to a nation that can’t navigate through reality, a nation […]
How the Next Downturn Will Surprise Us
How the Next Downturn Will Surprise Us In their campaign to contain the risks that caused the Great Recession, central bankers may have planted the seeds for the next global economic crisis. ImageCreditCreditJi Lee After the fall of Lehman Brothers 10 years ago, there was a public debate about how the leading American banks had […]
Blowback: UniCredit Becomes First Major Corporation To Sever Ties With Facebook Over Ethics
Blowback: UniCredit Becomes First Major Corporation To Sever Ties With Facebook Over Ethics Facebook has lost a major advertiser, UniCredit SpA, which has severed all ties alleging that the social media giant hasn’t acted ethically, reports Bloomberg – which notes that “other large companies” may follow suit. CEO Jean Pierre Mustier says the bank maintains that Facebook hasn’t […]
