Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Media 7 Comments

The Firebreak;

In 2017, The Guardian created theguardian.org, a charity wing to fund news stories in The Guardian along the same lines as NGOs fund campaigns. Skeptics would argue that they are taking donations in exchange for ink and this became evident after a public outcry when they applied for and received a large donation from an animal rights-focused foundation, Open Philanthropy, in exchange for multiple stories against livestock farming. But this is only the tip of the iceberg.

The Guardian became experts in selling their soul and auctioning off journalistic integrity to whomever would write them a check. A simple scan of their website showed 52 donations totalling at least $20,249,000 collected in the last five years. The average donation is around $400,000. Most of it was earmarked for stories on:

Environmental justice and food security: $1,750,000

The Age of Extinction: $1,500,000

Biodiversity loss: $1,400,000

Factory livestock farming: $2,236,000

Climate: $1,500,000

Oceans and climate: $1,600,000

Gun violence: $1,000,000

Via @KevinFolta, who has his own story.

Coulda Had A Pipeline

Drill, Baby, Drill It's Probably Nothing Religion Of Submission 26 Comments

Red Sea is now largely closed to traffic. That’s 8.8 million bpd of daily oil transit, and nearly 380 million tons of daily cargo transit. Global traffic now will be rerouted around Cape of Good Hope, adding 40% to voyage distance (and even more to cost)

BP, Evergreen, Euronav Halt Sailings Through Chaotic Red Sea As Insurers Demand ‘War Risk Coverage’

Suez update: 46 container ships now have diverted around the Cape of Good Hope rather than transiting the Red Sea.

John Konrad is a “former drillship captain, author of Fire On The Horizon“.

I’m a merchant ship Captain who runs a large news company for commercial shipping.

Five years ago I had zero interest in Naval or military affairs but this guy @mercoglianos just kept calling me telling me shipping is in BIG trouble if the US Navy keeps ignoring the concerns of the security shipping industry.

I’ll be completely honest, I ignored him for years. We had the strongest Navy on earth, and nobody was close. How could this be that big of a concern?

I wasn’t completely oblivious. I’ve listened to @cdrsalamander’s podcast every week for over a decade. He gave similar warnings.

I even wrote early articles about China’s islands building campaigns and the US Merchant Marines’s aging sealift fleet. But those were mostly isolated concerns.

But Sal did not stop calling. Slowly I started putting in a heavy amount of work into naval and military research… and unfortunately I found that Sal was .

Something to keep an eye on.

Let Us Pay Homage To The Las Vegas Nostradamus

CreepyJoeBiden Groomers 11 Comments

“I’ve just flown in from California, where they’ve made homosexuality legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory.”

Bend over and smile back at the camera, America.

Today the ever proliferating range of boutique identities seems relentlessly central to every aspect of public affairs, from the White House Christmas jubilations to that school-board president’s kindergarten classes to the flagpole of the abandoned Kabul embassy to Nato headquarters, where the Secretary-General now issues an annual statement against “biphobia” and “transphobia”:

Is battling “biphobia” really a strategic priority for Nato? Did he run that past the Turkish defence minister? Is that why the Nato-created “Afghan National Army” went (unlike Aidan Maese-Czeropski on the Senate Judiciary Committee table) belly up?

Well, yes, it is our strategic priority, according to a fascinating essay in The American Conservative. Helen Andrews starts with a throwaway quip by Rod Dreher – that we’re in Ukraine to “queer the Donbass” – and quickly concludes that it’s true. Most of us, according to political inclination, assume that foreign aid goes either to potable water projects in up-country villages or straight into the dictator’s retirement account in Zurich. In fact…

Read the American Conservative piece, too.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Unsettled Science 22 Comments

Thousands of years before ancient people in Central Eurasia learned to farm, hunter-gatherer groups in the subarctic were building some of the first permanent, fortified settlements, challenging the notion that agriculture was a prerequisite for societies to ‘settle down’.

Researchers now think they have dated the earliest known fortifications in the icy north, if not the world, near a curve of the Amnya River in Western Siberia. […]

Traditionally, archaeologists have assumed that foraging communities were not yet societally or politically ‘complex’ enough to build monumental, permanent structures that needed to be maintained or defended.

Yet ongoing research at the Amnya promontory and other archaeological sites around the world suggest that cultivating crops and rearing animals aren’t the only incentives for such activity.

Paper here.

The Children Are Our Future

Children R Our Future The Tolerant Left 19 Comments

All the unintentional incidents fall in the same direction;

Medicine Hat High School received backlash on Thursday, December 14, 2023, after students saw instructions for how to safely prepare illicit substances for consumption earlier this week.

The instructions were of part of just one of several pamphlets distributed at a wellness fair on Tuesday.

Pamphlets included “Safer Crystal Meth Smoking“, “Safe Crack Smoking” and “Safer Snorting” — outlining ways to smoke crystal meth and crack while outlining safe supplies to use.

We’re gonna need a bigger law.

Update: Danielle Smith announces the Alberta government will be reviewing funding agreements with the harm reduction organization. Do tell.

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