From his newspaper: BEIJING — China, the world’s most prodigious emitter of greenhouse gas, continues to suffer the downsides of unbridled economic growth despite a raft of new environmental initiatives. The quality of air in Chinese cities is increasingly tainted by coal-burning power plants, grit from construction sites and exhaust from millions of new cars squeezing onto crowded roads, according to a government study issued this week. Other newly released figures show a jump in industrial accidents and an epidemic of pollution in waterways. The report’s most unexpected findings pointed to an increase in inhalable particulates in …
On a recent trip to Chinese-occupied Tibet, I discovered striking parallels between Chinese Communist methodology and goals and the Hijra — an Islamic expansionistic strategy to suppress and supplant non-Muslim societies
(Stewart Baker) One of my cybersecurity nightmares is that foreign nations will use a network attack to bring down our power grid in a time of crisis. I’m not alone. Richard Clarke and Rob Knake spend a lot of time on the risk in their book on Cyberwar . So naturally the privacy lobby, determined to downplay the threat, would like to reassure everyone that this risk is just some science fiction boogeyman …
(Kenneth Anderson) One of these days I will take the plunge and compose a “greatest influences” books list, as some of the other Conspirators have done. I have hesitated in part because my list would not tend to contain works of monumental ideas, but instead plays, works of fiction, poetry, and fragments that are not always blockbusters in the history of ideas, as well major works of the left. Part of this is generational. I intellectually came of age in a period in which both Marx and Freud were still considered the giants, and in which the humanities had not yet collapsed into …
This October is the tenth anniversary of President Clinton’s signing the agreement to give China permanent normal trade relations. Now, as the United States faces a potential double-dip recession, China continues to maintain strong economic growth. The Chinese believe they are winning — that Western capitalism and culture will ultimately fall short of their own model. Many Westerners implicitly believe this too and are convinced that the next decade will be China’s. Today I have a new article that delves into another way that China is beating the United States: public diplomacy. This fight is one that we are…
Are the Taliban training monkeys to use guns and fight our troops? That’s what a Chinese newspaper claims , and I expect a Chinese newspaper to be somewhere between the New York Times and a North Korean daily in just making stuff up. Still, we have to consider the possibility, because this is definitely the sort of thing that leads to Planet of the Apes. But I just can’t see monkeys going on a religious jihad. As soon as the monkeys got guns, they’d just point them at the Taliban and say, “Hey, Taliban; tally …
“Where would Jesus drill?” That sounds almost like it could be the opening of a tree hugger’s bad joke, but instead it’s the lede in a recent Associated Press story written by John Flesher about a so-called “Green religion movement.” Efforts to make environmentalism its own sort of religion have been underway for some time now . But the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has sparked a new push to take what has been traditionally a political phenomenon, the American environmentalist movement, and make it part of the religious spectrum. Video Below Fold The Spill as God’s Message The “greening of religion” can be found in the most peculiar places. In May, CNN founder …
My column today, a very brief take on Islam, the West, and science. This e-mail over-interprets what I said about the Enlightenment, but makes good points (and is perhaps Derb bait): Mr. Lowry, ? With all due respect, crediting the Enlightenment for science is like crediting?Archie Bunker?for the Emancipation Proclamation.? It not only didn’t happen that way, it COULDN’T have happened that way.? The Scientific Revolution had been under way for centuries before the beginning of the Enlightenment.? …
From the “you can’t make this up” file, President Obama is turning NASA into his Muslim-outreach agency. According to Fox News , NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says that NASA’s foremost mission in 2010 is to improve relations with the Muslim world. Pause. Re-read. Pause. Huh? Yes. Re-read again. He went on to say, “[w]hen I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — [President …
A Chinese bank may set the record today for largest IPO ever , breaking the record set by another Chinese bank in 2006. Initial public offering – Financial services – Hong Kong – Business – Banking Services