Earth Day still focused on immoral climate crusade

Today is Earth Day, an event that has been almost entirely hijacked by the ridiculous and dangerous climate change movement. "Climate" appears a total of 10 times on the earthday.org home page and 15 time on the subpage for this year's event. The first action item on the Greenpeace USA home page is a link to a new report, "How Social Media Companies are failing to Tackle Climate Information." The United Nations International Mother Earth Day home page starts with the childish statements "Mother...
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Post Corona Blues

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

Like many husbands I have a pretty small suitcase. Well, small, anyway. All the better in this day and age, I hear you say, it will take up less space in the imminent era of permanent distance-awareness. The near future might usher in more legroom on planes, fewer flight attendants (could that mean fewer drinks?), no crowd control in sports stadia, breakneck hairdressers (so to speak) on roller skates and slowcoach postmen labouring under sacks of invitations to RSVP. Social life may revert to...

Facing the Future

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

In the olden days, before coronavirus, robbers used to wear masks when they made their way into banks to make off with the daily takings. In retrospect, it seems pitiful to relate that their loot often amounted to less than they might receive in present-day dole money without getting out of bed. It is tempting to wonder how they might have felt if they found everyone else in the bank was wearing a mask -- or, indeed, if a stern bank employee instructed them to stand behind a line on the floor...

A Shot in the Arm

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

Until a few minutes ago, I thought the letters VHS meant Video Home System, one of the two competing video systems of my younger days. The other was called Betamax, a coinage based on the Japanese beta-beta, "all over", but which sounded more like it was claiming only second place, like beta in the Greek alphabet. VHS is now defunct, having outlived Betamax by a mere nine months, but a new meaning has sprung up to take over its duties as an acronym, which I have just heard on early morning...

V is for Vaccine

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

My arm has often felt like a pincushion. A good example of this was during the SARS epidemic in 2002, when both myself and severe acute respiratory syndrome were at work in Hong Kong at the same time. Not that Hong Kong was at fault particularly -- the outbreak was first identified in Foshan in China, and thought to have originated in an animal market where you could buy everything from civets and snakes to rabbits and pheasants. No change there. Despite having to wear a mask while attempting...

Corona policy highlights Germany weakness

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

When faced with the threat of a new pandemic, ministers huddled together and etched ut their plans. The resolution they created says how to respond to the spread of a new type of infectious disease, which "cannot be planned in advance down to the smallest detail." But Germany is "well prepared for such a situation." It is March 12, 2020. Ten days later, the roundtable deliberates again, this time in a conference call - and sends the country into lockdown for the first time. For twelve months...

Reimagining diplomacy in the post-COVID world: an indian perspective

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

We enter 2021, hoping to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us. While each society has dealt with it uniquely, global diplomacy will nevertheless focus on common concerns and shared lessons. Much of that revolves around the nature of globalization. Our generation has been conditioned to think of that largely in economic terms. The general sense is one of trade, finance, services, communication, technology and mobility. This expresses the interdependence and interpenetration of our era. What...

Women's shelters full, but male victims have even fewer options

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

Even before the pandemic, the numbers were dramatic: in 2019, more than 140,000 people apparently experienced intimate partner violence, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office. 81 percent of these were women (although men vastly under-report when women are the abusers), who in about half of the cases lived in the same household with the perpetrator. Getting out of these relationships takes an average of seven years. In an expensive city like Munich, then it can perhaps take even longer....

EU faces uncertainty as Brexit and pandemic hit hard

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

As 2020 draws to a close, the EU unknowingly teeters on the brink. After a year of disastrous political posturing and protectionism, inadvertently leading to the decimation of many industries, the EU says goodbye to a jubilant UK. Now more than ever, the EU needs to stand united against the fallout from the pandemic mishandling and the threat from China. Yet instead, an old ally departs with jingoistic flags waving, leaving an embarassingly insightful expose of EU inner workings accessible to...

Repression of predominant-Sikh farm movement could stoke fears among Indian minorities

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

A nationwide farmers movement has punctuated one of the largest food producing countries in the world with millions of Indian farmers from more than 450 unions and organizations in a grinding standoff with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Narendra Modi government, soliciting to repeal the newly invoked farm laws. On September 20, the Indian parliament passed two scratchy farm Bills to reform the agriculture market in the country. A couple of days later, it enacted amendments in...

Yoga - the ancient key to a new way of life

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

Old words of wisdom are never fully realized until testing times creep unexpecedly into our lives, such as the Covid-19 stay at home phase. This arguably inexorable situation has provided moments of self-retrospection. As the saying goes, staying connected to ancient wisdom provides an individual with the courage to face and handle predicaments on the journey of life, so we too have experienced it lately. For our small family, it has always been living and seeking balance between two...

Environmentalists should hope for quick economic rebound

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

We are seeing significant pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions as a result of the economic slowdown caused by the world's response to the COVID-19 virus. For example, Carbon Brief reported that GHG emissions in China had dropped at least 25% in February in comparison with the same period last year. Marshall Burke, Assistant Professor and Deputy Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University, tweeted on March 9 that "Reductions in air pollution...

Extinction Rebellion, more hindrance than help

April 22, 2022 • 12:00 AM

As Extinction Rebellion (XR) takes to the streets of various capital cities around the world, one can't help but wonder on their true motivations and consequent usefulness. As protests go, it is well organised, composed of a wide cross section of society and lacking (for the moment) the dire left wing violence of Antifa-esque/far-left tactics. Yet, for all its obvious good intentions, the movement reeks of hypocrisy, self-indulgence and narcissism. Such as how the feminist envy...

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