Are we being played?

Suddenly the news is filled with articles about protests against hate crimes against Asians. If such a thing exists, it would certainly be troubling but I can’t find solid evidence of such a problem. Not every crime crime committed against an Asian is a hate crime.

A sex addict killed 8 sex workers claiming he had to eliminate temptation. 6 of them were Asian. But they were killed because they worked in a massage parlor, an industry dominated by Asians, not because they were Asian.

Finding accurate statistics has been difficult, because crimes that would have been characterized as robberies or simple assaults a year ago are now seen as hate crimes. But even at their worst, the number if hate crimes against Asians is a small fraction of those against Jews, which has been going on for a century.

All this happens at a time when we are in difficult negotiations with China, and the CCP has thousands of agents in this country working on disinformation campaigns. This is certainly convenient.

I am reminded of a flash mob, a dance routine that appears to be spontaneous, but in reality is carefully planned.

Politicizing the pandemic and “epidemiological moochers”.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-03-21/half-of-republican-men-say-they-dont-want-the-vaccine-theyre-mooching-off-the-rest-of-us

“Herd immunity against the coronavirus will require between 70% and 85% of the population to be vaccinated, Fauci estimates. It’s a new disease, so nobody knows the precise level, and new variants of the virus could push the number higher.

“If a significant number of people do not get vaccinated, that would delay where we would get to that endpoint,” Fauci warned recently. 

And the longer it takes, the more people will get sick.

Paul, Cawthorn and their colleagues are casting themselves as courageous individualists. In fact, they’re acting as epidemiological moochers. They’re free riders, relying on the rest of us to protect them by helping the country reach herd immunity.”

A whole ‘nuther take on American exceptionalism.

EXCLUSIVE: Putin Humiliated Biden in Moscow Meeting, Reveals Obama-Era White House Stenographer.

Source: The National Pulse.

Vox Day comments on this story, “Putin knows. He knows a lot more about what’s actually going on than we do.”

My own thoughts are not quite so conspiratorial. The anecdote makes sense of Putin’s recent offer to hold a live discussion/debate with Biden. There is no chance Biden will take him up on it because Biden is weak and fearful.

The Destructive Power of Keynesian Spending Plans

Source: Mises Institute.

The writer uses the concepts of productive and non-productive consumption to show that government spending is inherently destructive.

I would add that some destructive spending is both necessary and desirable. Military defense spending, for example, deters war; judicial spending enables domestic conflicts to be resolved; and so on. The benefits far outweigh the costs.

Still, the costs are real and they are unavoidable.