#ToponymAsiaChina #WebsiteRealClearEnergyRCEJoelKotkin "Like the rest of the country, although far less than New York, California is suffering through the Covid-19 crisis. But in California, the pandemic seems likely to give the state's political and corporate elites a new license to increase their dominion while continuing to keep the middle and working classes down. Perhaps nothing spells the triumph of California's progressive oligarchy more than Governor Gavin Newsom's decision to off-load the state's recovery strategy to a task force co-chaired by hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer. A recently failed presidential candidate, Steyer stands as a progressive funder. He is as zealous as he is rich. Steyer sometimes even found the policies adopted by climate-obsessed former governor Jerry Brown not extreme enough for his tastes." https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2020/04/27/triumph_of_the_woke_oligarchs_490094.html #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyGavinNewsom #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJerryBrown ^[Wikipedia] #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFinancial

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Supplementary #WebsiteTheDailyBeastKevinPoulsen and #WebsiteTheDailyBeastMaxwellTani "The company behind the non-partisan news site RealClearPolitics has been secretly running a Facebook page filled with far-right memes and Islamophobic smears, The Daily Beast has learned. ... It's a far cry from the usual fare on RealClearPolitics. Founded in 2000, the site was an early online aggregator of political news, curating links to widely read politics stories and opinion articles in other major outlets. ... The Daily Beast connected ConservativeCountry.net to RealClear through archives on the Wayback Machine, which show that the website had RealClear's Google Analytics tracker code and that some of the site's images were served from the WordPress account of RealClear's chief technology officer. Interviews with former editorial staff of ConservativeCountry.net confirmed that it was a stealth RealClear property. ... Conservative Country isn't the first ultra-partisan title that's been connected to RealClear. A 2017 SEC filing listed RealClear co-founder John McIntyre as a director at FDRLST Media and put both companies at the same Chicago address. FDRLST Media is the parent company of The Federalist... RealClear didn't respond to questions about the Facebook page but acknowledged that it created the website. 'The Conservative Country website was created as part of an effort to understand the flow of traffic from social media--particularly Facebook--to political websites,' said RealClear CTO Anand Ramanujan in an email to The Daily Beast. 'There are no other non-RealClear titles out there.'" https://redgreenandblue.org/2020/09/30/realclearenergy-really-clearly-invested-climate-change-denial/ #BrandTechMetaFacebook #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #OrgUSInternetArchiveWaybackMachine #WebsiteRealClearPoliticsRCP #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyBetoORourke #WebsiteConservativeCountry #WebsiteRealClearMedia #IRLCampaignAdvisorSteveCortes #BrandFDRLSTMediaJohnMcIntyre #WebsiteRealClearAnandRamanujan #WebsiteAmericanThinkerThomasLifson

#MetaphorVersusCostEnvironment "The predictably pious Steyer and his fellow commissioners will no doubt claim devotion to the interests of average citizen. But, as a new lawsuit filed by some 300 civil rights leaders asserts, the policies being backed by Steyer and his fellow commissioners have already had produced disastrous results for millions of Californians. The real collective badge of shame is not California's GHG [Green House Gas] emissions but the prevalence of poverty amid enormous affluence. Critically, economic growth, at least outside asset- and iPhone-price inflation, is itself considered a threat to the planet within the environmental community, which largely hails the Covid lockdowns as a 'fire drill' for future actions to promote 'de-growth.' The open hope, as a Psychology Today writer puts it, would be to tame 'the human beast' by imposing low-consumption lifestyles on hoi polloi, including in developing countries. Such policies might not affect the prospects for social media, search, or import- dependent firms like Apple, but they have already been beastly for millions of Californians." #IRLBusinesspersonTomSteyer #CauseCivilRights #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCalifornia #LiteralSubstanceGasToxicAirEmissions #PhenomnDeprivationPoverty #BrandAppleiPhone #ConditionVirusCOVID19PandemicMitigationLockdown #MagazineUSPsychologyTodayNigelBarber

#ConditionVirusCOVID19 #PhenomnHydraulicFracturingFracking #IRLPhysicianAnthonyFauci #BeliefPseudoscience https://www.dossier.today/p/fauci-goes-full-pseudoscience-covid

"Fauci and his coauthor appear to be taking the position that human dominance over nature is a bad thing, one that is sure to result in future catastrophes. That could be true when it comes to subjects such as advanced military weaponry (high powered nuclear bombs), but the paper completely ignores the fact that human innovation has allowed for our lifespans to double since the mid 19th century. Additionally, it's not as if deadly pandemics are only a recent issue. The Black Death, which took an estimated 75-200 million lives, occurred 400 years before the Industrial Revolution, and none of the pandemics of the 21st century have had a significant negative impact on global health. COVID-19, which has had the most sophisticated tracking program in pandemic history, has still registered fewer than 1 million reported deaths worldwide. Human innovation has allowed for a more sanitary lifestyle, and this has undoubtedly reduced the impact that pandemics and climate events may have had on our lives. Fauci's seeming embrace of the degrowth movement makes no sense, from a human health perspective. Rolling back human progress and becoming 'one with nature' would make humans *more* susceptible to pandemics, not less."

#IRLMurdererDerekChauvin #IRLDeceasedGeorgeFloyd