Category: Cronies

Y2Kyoto: Laws Are For The Little People

According to a new report from Transport & Environment (T&E) titled “Climate Impacts of Exemptions to EU’s Shipping Proposals: Arbitrary exemptions undermine integrity of shipping laws”, more than half of Europe’s ships would be exempt from the European Commission’s carbon pricing plan for the sector. Among them: highly polluting if extremely desirable – for the Monte Carlo set yachts.

More from Terry Etam: Private jet/yacht emissions are totally fine, the rest of you can go cuddle your cats to stay warm

h/t Adrian

Your creditors can go pound sand

Given this precedent, will student loans effectively be “forgiven” by the simple expedient of endlessly rolling the payment pause? Perpetually denying investors access to their capital will pause any economic recovery as well.

The Biden administration will relieve Americans from paying their federal student loans through the end of January, extending the pause for what it says is the last time as the government seeks to keep the economic recovery rolling.

The move continues the suspension of payments for all loans owned by the Education Department, maintaining a 0% interest rate and keeping in place a freeze on the collection of defaulted debt.

Shifting the burden of debt

In preparation for a fall election, Shiny Pony has announced a bribe for Newfoundland voters.

Premier Andrew Furey said that without the C$2 billion aid package, electricity rates could have doubled.

“(This) is a big day for Newfoundland and Labrador and will finally get the Muskrat off our back,” he told the event.

What a deal. Get the “muskrat” off your back by hanging a debt gorilla on the back of every other Canadian. Thanks a bunch.

Policy you can’t see in Canada

There’s not many things that Zimbabwe gets right these days, but when it comes to Covid treatment they make Canada look like a banana republic. In a nutshell, Ivermectin is widely available and widely used in Zimbabwe. Their case curve has been essentially flat since February.

Being very aggressive with a drug which has caused 16 deaths in 32 years in 4 billion doses is not being a cowboy; it’s trying to save the patient’s life.

Stockholm syndrome

Why would any business owner support this bunch?

It all comes down to a slow return to pre-pandemic revenue levels amid continuing restrictions, along with a large debt load that makes it impossible for struggling firms to borrow more.

Why bother to correctly identify the problem if all you propose are solutions which will largely make it worse? The 12 point program linked to the article seems like a prescription for suicide.

Y2Kyoto: Follow The Money

Michael Shellenberger;

… in Europe and the U.S. Democrats and Greens are actively seeking to replace nuclear plants with Russian natural gas and Chinese solar panels while doing nothing of significance to return solar panel manufacturing to the United States. The solar firms that Secretary Granholm championed in 2009 couldn’t compete with Chinese firms and went bankrupt in 2012 and 2017. McKibben didn’t mention that forced labor is used to make solar panels. And President Biden lifted sanctions on the Russian firm overseeing the building of Nordstream II, thereby allowing Russia to significantly increase control over Western Europe.

Why is that?

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