Archive for 2024

GOOD GRIEF: Continental Gaslighting: EU Releases Alarming Report – Europe Is Too ‘White’ and ‘European.’

The report, which dropped yesterday, is an astounding masterpiece of projection and natural gas. Europe’s problems, the ECFR concludes, have nothing to do with the sacrosanct status of the European Union and their dictatorial, authoritarian wielding of power.

In point of fact, part of the problem – the disconnect, as the report moans – is what the authors attribute as the main drivers of populism and dissatisfaction with the European collective. These are mistakenly driving innocent young people away from appreciating the glory of continental unification aka EUROPEANISM.

WHAT IS THREATENING TO RUIN THE EUROPEANISM BORG

Of course, it’s nothing Brussels has done. It’s all because of too much “white” and too much of the national identity stuff.

Hence the Great Replacement which I’m still assured by the very best people is a conspiracy theory whipped up by mouth-breathing reactionaries.

Somehow, it’s racist when a people in their own country want to keep their own country. But none dare call it colonialism when millions of foreigners set up shop in a new country with no intention of assimilating.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: What Happens if We Hold College and Nobody Comes? “There has been a precipitous decline in enrollments across the country as universities worry about covering their costs without raising already high tuition rates. From 2010 to 2021, enrollments fell from roughly 18.1 million students to about 15.4 million. There are various contributors to the drop from falling birthrates to poor economic times. However, there is also an increasing view of higher education as an academic echo chamber for far left agendas. For many, there is little appeal in going to campuses where you are expected to self-censor and professors reject your values as part of their lesson plans.”

To be fair, how could they have known this was coming?

SPACE IS HARD. SO ARE SUBMERSIBLES: China’s Newest Nuclear Submarine Sank, Setting Back Its Military Modernization.

The U.S. doesn’t know if the sub was carrying nuclear fuel at the time it sank, but experts outside the U.S. government said that was likely.

Undersea technology has long been an area of U.S. advantage, but China has been pushing hard to narrow the gap.

China has been moving to diversify the production of nuclear-powered submarines. Production has been centered in the northeastern city of Huludao, but China is now moving to manufacture nuclear-powered attack submarines at the Wuchang Shipyard near Wuhan.

Beijing had 48 diesel-powered attack subs and six nuclear-powered attack subs at the end of 2022, according to a Pentagon report issued last year on China’s military power,

That report said that China’s aim in developing new attack submarines, surface ships and naval aircraft is to counter efforts by the U.S. and its partners to come to Taiwan’s aid during a conflict and to achieve “maritime superiority” within the first island chain, a string of territory from the Japanese archipelago through Taiwan and the Philippines to the South China Sea.

The Zhou-class vessel that sank is the first of a new class of Chinese nuclear-powered subs and features a distinctive X-shaped stern, which is designed to make the vessel more maneuverable.

The sub was built by China State Shipbuilding Corp., a state-owned company, and was observed alongside a pier on the Yangtze River in late May when it was undergoing its final equipping before going to sea.

After the sinking, large floating cranes arrived in early June to salvage the sub from the river bed, according to satellite photos of the site.

Exit quote: “In addition to the obvious questions about training standards and equipment quality, the incident raises deeper questions about the PLA’s internal accountability and oversight of China’s defense industry, which has long been plagued by corruption.”

I ASSUME THAT PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING OUT OF THE DOJ TODAY IS POLITICAL: The selective prosecution of Eric Adams: When the Biden-Harris Admin tells DOJ to “investigate,” the feds interpret the order as a mandate to bring charges. “At first glance, the indictment may leave citizens a bit confused about the alleged criminal activity that the feds claim Adams engaged in.”

Why is the Biden-Harris Administration persecuting a strong black man?

DO SOME SHOPPING FOR THE GEEK IN YOUR LIFE BEFORE THE HOLIDAY MADNESS:  And before whatever the election brings.  Shop ahead and save.

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