KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Republicans Better Not Wuss Out If They Win Big in November. “If the Republicans get some power back we’re going to need more than a lot of dog-and-pony show hearings. And we definitely won’t need any ‘above the fray’ garbage. If there are hearings, there had better be results. Democrats in orange jumpsuits kinds of results.”
Archive for 2022
August 12, 2022
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Why Americans are increasingly dubious about going to college.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: WSJ: Chinese Student Visas To U.S. Plunge 50% From Pre Pandemic Levels, Imperiling University Finances.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN IS ON PUBLIC-CHOICE ECONOMICS: Woke elites control the institutions meant to serve us.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Zitahli Men’s Slim Wallet. #CommissionEarned
UM, SURE, THAT’S BELIEVABLE:
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Move Over, Hunter Biden: Pelosi Takes Her Investment Banker Son Along on Taxpayer-Funded Taiwan Trip.
CHANGE: Denmark outlaws the COVID vaccines for children. “Yesterday, we learned that the CDC is basically pulling the plug on the pandemic and telling everyone to just get on with their lives. When NPR covered the story, they gave the impression that there wasn’t going to be as much of a push to get people vaccinated, either. But that’s just here in the United States. Across the pond, the changes to official government policy are coming in a more fast and furious fashion. It was just announced in Denmark that vaccinations for children are ending entirely. We’re not talking about removing mandates. Denmark is effectively outlawing the vaccination of children for COVID, saying it will ‘no longer be possible’ for children under the age of 18 to receive first shots immediately and second shots will be banned in September. . . . I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect that some very big news may be coming about the vaccines. If the shots were simply ‘not needed’ for kids, wouldn’t you just make them optional? Flatly outlawing the vaccines for children at least suggests that Denmark’s government believes they are potentially harmful in some fashion.”
Related:
Uh…um…wait…what???
Someone saying these things even a short time before the @CDCgov would have been a crackpot, selfish, Low-Information, dangerous, pseudo-science, anti-science zealot.
This behavior of destroying dissenters who read ahead faster than you do is simply evil. https://t.co/YCJNH5Kp3V
— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) August 11, 2022
MORE BLOWBACK, PLEASE: American Bar Association Scraps Controversial Diversity Proposal After Blowback: Law professors warned that proposal would encourage illegal race discrimination.
Maybe law schools should fix their political diversity problem first.
BECAUSE THE FBI’S MISSION IS PROTECTING DEMOCRATS AND HARASSING REPUBLICANS: So FBI, why no raid of Hunter Biden’s house?!
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Workers in These States Would Pay Most Under Biden’s New Business Tax.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘An Assassination of Our Careers’: How faculty layoffs have forever changed the University of Akron. “Angela Bilia made $18,000 last year as an adjunct at the University of Akron. She once made more — triple, in fact — doing nearly the exact same job. In the early months of the pandemic, the Ohio university laid off close to 100 faculty members, including Bilia. But the service Bilia had provided to the university — teaching “the bread and butter courses” of the English department for over 15 years — was still needed. So the university hired her back as an adjunct.”
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
REVIEWING THE FBI’S RECENT BAD APPLES: Ken Braun of the Capital Research Center (CRC) lays out the disturbing details.
(Bumped, by Glenn).
IT’S HARD TO KEEP ‘EM DOWN ON THE FARM WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO SHUT DOWN THE FARM: Why Greens Can’t Keep Angry Farmers Down on the Farm, in the Netherlands or Globally.
Farmers in the Netherlands reduced nitrogen pollution by nearly 70% through a voluntary system. But the government says that is not enough and is demanding that they cut pollution by another 50% by 2030.
By the Dutch government’s own estimates, 11,200 farms out of the roughly 35,000 dedicated to dairy and livestock would have to close under its policies; 17,600 farmers would have to reduce livestock; and total livestock would need to be reduced by one-half to one-third. The Dutch government has demanded that animal farming stop entirely in many places. Of the over $25.7 billion the government has set aside to reduce pollution, just $1 billion is for technological innovation, with most of the rest for buying out farmers.
This effort has sparked a fierce backlash among Dutch farmers, who argue that the government seems more interested in reducing animal agriculture than in finding solutions that protect the food supply and their livelihoods.
Farmer protests in the Netherlands come at a time of heightened global food insecurity created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a major wheat exporter.
The Netherlands is the largest exporter of meat in Europe and the second largest exporter of food overall by economic value in the world, after the United States, a remarkable feat for a nation half the size of Indiana. Farm exports generate nearly $100 billion a year in revenue. Experts attribute the nation’s success to its farmers’ embrace of technological innovation.
The Netherlands is just one of the countries where governments are pushing for sharp limits on farming. Canada, for example, is seeking a 30% reduction in nitrogen pollution by 2030. While the Canadian government says it is not mandating fertilizer use reductions, only pollution reductions, experts agree that such a radical pollution decline in such a short period will only be possible through reducing fertilizer use, and thus food production. The cost to farmers would be between $10 billion and $48 billion.
“If you push farmers against the wall with no wiggle room, I don’t know where this will end up,” said Gunter Jochum, president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association. “Just look at what’s happening in Europe, in the Netherlands. They’ve had enough of it.”
The rest of us should be just as angry.
Earlier:
● Sri Lanka Begging Russia and India for Fuel: A Nation Wrecked by Green Agricultural Policies.
● Here’s What Life Looks Like in a Country That’s Run Out of Fuel.
● Could It Happen Here? 200 Dead, as Sri Lanka Literally Runs Out of Gas.
● In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong.
● Sri Lanka facing imminent threat of starvation, senior politician warns.
● Looming food shortages is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’ to hit world.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why Red Meat Negative Health Claims are False.
THERE ARE OTHER TRENDS. NONE ON THE SIDE OF WOKIES: Why Wokeness Is Doomed.
SOME SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS PREDICTED MECHANISMS WAY TOO WELL: When The Masquerade Breaks.
WE ARE THE TARGETS. ALL OF US: Biden Admin Keeps Contradicting Itself on Targets of the New IRS Audits.
The Infernal Revenue Stasi is going after soft targets.
IS ANYONE SHOCKED BY THIS? THE GOAL IS SOCIALISM, NOT THE WEATHER: Calculations Show Schumer-Manchin Green Boondoggle Bill Will Have Little Impact on Global Temperature.
THAT’S A FUNNY WAY TO SPELL “ANYTHING AGAINST DEMOCRATS”: Remember How They Suppressed Hunter’s Laptop Story? Twitter Announces Midterms Crackdown On “Misleading” Election Claims.
THEY DROPPED THE NEW ABNORMAL: CDC Finally Drops Quarantine, Distance, and School Testing COVID Guidelines.
EVERYTHING IS PROCEEDING AS COULD BE FORESEEN: China fired missiles into… Japanese maritime territory; Garland disowning Mar A Lago raid; “Islamophobic” attack turns out to be internecine violence.
By a blind man, in a coal cellar, at midnight. But not by the congenital idiots of the Junta.