Our brave new world
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“Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?” Men from down under
Nuclear war in the Middle East is probably not going to end well
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Under the agreement, the U.N. nuclear watchdog forfeited its right to carry out suspected nuclear sites’ snap inspections.
“There is less access, let’s face it. But still we were able to retain the necessary degree of monitoring and verification work,” IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said, justifying the “a temporary technical understanding” reached with Iran.
The statement is hardly credible. Even the U.N.’s reports show that Iran has been advancing its nuclear program despite the purported monitoring and inspections. The IAEA inspectors have repeatedly detected radiations at Iranian nuclear sites, indicating a clandestine weapons program.
“The U.N. nuclear watchdog found uranium particles at two Iranian sites it inspected after months of stonewalling,” Reuters disclosed just last week.
….[T] he Biden White House on Friday agreed to reenter nuclear talks. It reversed outgoing President Donald Trump’s decision to enforce U.N. sanctions and weapons embargo on the regime.
The move formally ends Trump’s policy of ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran. It paves the way for China and Russia to sell advanced weapons and air defense systems to the rogue Shia-Islamic regime. Given Iran’s status as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, a substantial part of this weaponry would end up in the hands of Palestinian, Arab, and other Islamic terrorist groups in the Middle East.
With the Biden-Harris administration undoing President Trump’s legacy of strength and bringing back Obama-era policy of appeasement, Iran is confident that Washington will soon lift all sanctions imposed by the previous president.
“We predict with confidence that diplomatic initiatives will result in a favourable outcome despite the diplomatic wrangling, (…) including the lifting of all sanctions in the near future,” Iranian regime spokesman Ali Rabiei declared on Saturday.
Coupled with Biden’s intention to destroy our oil and gas industry and return us to dependency on Saudi oil, we’re in for interesting times.
That's different because shut up
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The supposed scandal last week was that Desantis had directed 3,000 doses of vaccine to elderly residents in “red districts”. Not surprisingly, if you’re prioritizing vaccinating elderly people, you’ll find a majority of them are conservative voters. End of story.
But you don’t have to be a conservative to receive the shot in Florida; here’s the same, 73-year-old King writing about his own vaccination in that state two weeks ago; he makes no mention having to produce proof of party affiliation.
After reopening the border, Biden reopens cages for unaccompanied children
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UPDATE: Over at Insanity Wrap, Stephen Green marvels at how, with just one change in administrations, “Cages” became “migrant facilities”.
Car dealers next to get vaccine priority?
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This entire thing has always been about politics (and the desire to make formerly-free citizens utterly dependent on the government for their daily bread). Lamont bows to teachers unions today, but CT car dealers are also hugely powerful: wonder why you can’t buy a Tesla directly from the manufacturer? Ask your local Buick dealer.
So expect them to be next to be moved to the head of the line.
Poverty, or pleasing John Kerry? Easy choice
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Mexico was once a climate leader — now it’s betting big on coal
China’s building a new coal plant every week, and India and the rest of the third world are scrambling to do the same; that’s probably why Kerry was forced to admit last week that” even if we reduce our carbon emissions to zero, it will have no effect”.
Biggest snow job in history
Hot market
/Contracts reported today (so far)
7 Old Camp
7 Old Camp Road, Cos Cob, asking $1.8 million, 25 days on market (DOM). It sold for $1.950 in our last frenzy back in 2006, but given the speed with which it’s sold this time, it wouldn’t shock me if that price has been achieved again.
29 Cottontail Road, Cos Cob. Asking $1.8, 26 DOM.
66 butternut hollow
66 Butternut Hollow Road, Greenwich, $2.750 million, 20 DOM
112 Shore Road
112 Shore Road, Old Greenwich. $2.5 million, 45 DOM.
It’s happening all over town. I had a client call about a condominium that had just hit the market in the western side. no showings until the following Monday. The Mickster called immediately to set up an appointment only to be told that all showing slots for Monday and Tuesday had been filled. literally within hours. In the past decade, units in this development have taken months to sell in — not so today.
I think the market will cool, and prices will drop, but not this spring, and maybe not this year. It’s a lousy time to be a buyer.
As the 51st anniversary of Earth Day approaches, a reminder
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18 spectacularly wrong “expert” predictions from that era
A sampling:
1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment
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4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
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12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.8 years).
14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
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18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
Why do taxpayers continue to fund these nursery schools for retards?
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Happy Birthday, and thanks
Subjective feelings, no matter how bizarre, are now the new reality; so long as those feelings are leftist.