
© AP/Susan Walsh/KJNUS President Joe Biden
For years, European policymakers had assured the world that the relatively rapid "transition" to "green" energy was the world's preordained future -- regardless of the costs. Accordingly, many European Union governments followed the advice of green experts. They eagerly shut down coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants to transition immediately to "renewable energy."
Most citizens were afraid to object that in cloudy cold Germany,
solar panels were not viable methods of electrical generation -- especially in comparison to the country's vast coal deposits and its large, model nuclear power industry.
As a result, German government officials warn that this winter, in 19th-century fashion,
families will have to burn wood -- the dirtiest of modern fuels -- to endure the cold. And there is further talk of
"warm rooms," where like pre-civilizational tribal people, the elderly will bunch together within a designated heated room to keep alive.
Sri Lanka may be the first modern nation to adopt deliberate policies that have led to mass hunger and bankruptcy. The government, for a variety of reasons, listened to foreign advocates of back-to-nature organic farming, specifically outright abandonment of highly effective synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
The result was endemic crop failure. Cash crops for export failed. Widespread hunger followed. Without foreign exchange, it became impossible to import key staples like food and fuel.Sri Lanka once had a per capita income twice that of nearby India. Now it cannot feed nor fuel itself.Unfortunately, its incompetent government trusted radical environmental advisors, many of them foreign experts. Sri Lanka believed it could become the woke darling of the "Environmental, Social, Governance" movement, and in that way draw in unlimited Western woke investment.
Instead, it has embraced a policy of national suicide.Recently, a group of
55 distinguished pro-administration economists assured us that President Joe Biden's massive borrowing and new entitlements agenda
were not inflationary. In September 2021, these economists with 14 Nobel prize winners among them
declared that Biden's inflationary policies would actually "ease" inflation.Last month, inflation spiked to an annualized rate of
9.1%.
Comment: The Palestinian reaction was swift: Israel appears to be preparing for more than just air strikes. Hoping that the world will be distracted by the Ukraine and Taiwan crises? Iron Dome missiles are expensive, at more that $50K a pop. Given the size of the PIJ barrage, and the promise it will not end soon, Israel knows it's very important to keep its arms sugardaddy onside: Turkey makes its views known: Turkey's relations with Israel have waxed and waned according to Erdogan's sense of realpolitik. Currently they are on a downward slide.
Erdogan says Turkey 'won't allow' Israel to claim new West Bank territories