People who think we have £4 trillion to spare to spend on net zero ought to stay silent on unfunded spending commitments.

'The decision on how to utilize these unfrozen resources and financial assets lies with the Islamic Republic of Iran.' — Iranian Foreign Ministry, Aug. 11, 2023

This is utter bullshit.

To think we once intoned words like “disinformation” and “content moderation” and assigned real value to them and actually had an entire cadre of academics and professionals assigned to stamping out the former with the latter.

What idiocy that all was.

Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty? by Bjorn Lomborg wsj.com/articles/will-… via Wall Street Journal Opinion

If Gavin Newsom cares about democracy as much as he proclaims, why is he asking the California Supreme Court to block a voter initiative that would limit Sacramento’s power to raise taxes? wsj.com/articles/gavin… via Wall Street Journal Opinion

'The sacrifices that racing to net zero will involve will have about as much impact on the climate as sacrificing oxen to Thor to head off a thunderstorm, even if both, for a while, might provide some psychological comfort.' Andrew Stuttaford nationalreview.com/2023/10/net-ze…

Elites argues that the World Bank, along with many others, needs to spend $3 trillion more, mostly on climate

But poverty, disease, hunger, illiteracy? Can fix cheaper, matters much more

My new WSJ oped

wsj.com/articles/will-…

It’s a genuine scandal

In a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos, Hamas supporters who seek asylum in the EU celebrate the Islamist massacres in Israel

Tragic day!Many civilians killed.Its complicated but the coverage is baffling @Bbcworld @bbcnews r not reporting plentiful footage posted by Hamas itself: housetohouse killings of women kids,hostages paraded,naked bodies desecrated b4 crowds, yet only debating Israeli response...

Surely the Breaking News was:
Gaza launches thousands of missiles into Israel

And then:
Palestinian gunmen terrorise and indiscriminately slaughter civilians by shooting, beheading, hanging, kidnapping, and parading the naked torsos of Israeli soldiers through the streets..

If you didn't like Pax Americana, you're going to hate what comes after Pax Americana...

All day we've seen it. Not hidden. Indiscriminate/performative atrocities, open humiliation of innocent civilians, all-out invasion, Islamification of anti-Israel forces. This is no more a defensive war of liberation by Hamas than barbarity/nihilism of ISIS & still many excuse...

Good thing we cleared the way for them to get $6 billion a few weeks ago.

China built all that high speed rail, but America has some of the safest tap water on Earth.

The U.K. is a European lynchpin in NATO, the Royal Air Force provides strategic air defence/fighter coverage/intercept for Ireland that spends 5.9 billion a year on NGOs & 1.2 billion a year on defence (hence air defence outsourced to U.K.). I could go on but it’s a long list.

My theory: Because you don’t care about the slaughter in Ukraine and are too dumb to understand that just because you don’t look for videos from Ukraine that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Handing over Afghanistan to them was a great idea, you guys. Heckuva job.

Collectivism and Man at Yale

Capital Matters
nationalreview.com/2023/10/collec…

It is essential that we understand the 'seen' and 'unseen' costs of government.