News Roundup - 25 March 2022

 

• “The Inflation Disaster Is Collateral Damage From Lockdowns” – The outrageous prices at the grocery store and gas stations are yet more collateral damage from the initial lockdowns two years ago, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker in Brownstone Institute.
• What Is Holding U.S. Nuclear Energy Back?Global energy markets are in turmoil over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent energy sanctions imposed by western nations. As we recently wrote, both renewables and nuclear energies are the two immediate beneficiaries of this conflict and the related allied response. For example, on March 19, Belgium announced a ten-year delay in the planned closure of two nuclear plants, Doel 4 and Tihange 3 while doubling its commitment to offshore wind. By Leonard Hyman & William Tilles of OilPrice.com
• Saudis Launch Retaliation Strikes On Yemen As Houthi Missiles Threaten Nearby Formula 1 RaceSaudi state sources on Saturday said the Saudi coalition thwarted another attempted Houthi attack on oil tankers off Yemen's coast. SPA said Saudi forces have destroyed explosive-laden boats which were being prepared for an "imminent attack on oil tankers" in Yemen’s Saleef port and Hodeidah port.At least four "weaponized boats" belonging to the "Iran-banked Houthis" were neutralized, according Saudi military statements. Continure reading at Zero Hedge
• The Media Campaign To Protect Joe Biden Passes Point Of Absurditythe Times story applies the final dollop of clown makeup to Wolf Blitzer, Lesley Stahl, Christiane Amanpour, Brian Stelter, and countless other hapless media stooges, many starring in Matt Orfalea’s damning montage above (the Hunter half-laugh is classic, by the way). All cooperated with intelligence officials to dismiss a damaging story about Biden’s abandoned laptop and his dealings with the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma as “Russian disinformation.” by Matt Tiabbi, TK News
• Ukrainian Forces Want to Surrender and Azov Forces Started Shooting At Them – They Are At War With Each OtherIn his report on Friday, US Navy veteran and independent journalist, Patrick Lancaster interviewed residents of the ethnic Greek village of Sartana, one of the villages surrounding Mariupol, Ukraine. “This is right on, what you could say is the frontline now. Nobody knows exactly where the frontline starts and ends at this point there’s just so much information and [ ] minute by minute the lines are changing,” Lancaster said. Eight years ago, a referendum was held and “mostly people asked for Russian language. But they decided to Ukrainise us, so that everybody speaks Ukrainian … It was forbidden to speak Russian in the store. There was some tension. Employees paid fines for not saying ‘Good afternoon’ in Ukrainian in stores,” one resident explained... Continue reading at The Expose
• “Covid inquiry will brush toll on children under the carpet, warn senior Tories” – There are calls for the scope of the Covid inquiry to be widened to ensure the “burden shouldered by childred” as a result of Government policies is fully considered, reports the Telegraph.
• “We must face up to the grievous moral error of shutting schools” – This is an opportunity to reflect honestly on the suffering inflicted on children, and to try to fix our moral compass, writes Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
• “We need to take a long hrd look at the use of behavioural science – but the elites don’t want us to” – “The Government’s use of behavioural science now effects almost all aspects of our day-to-day lives,” writes Dr. Gary Sidley in Laura Dodsworth’s Substack.
• “Biden admin operated with missing data as CDC issued pandemic guidance, emails show” – Newly released emails reveal the Biden admin lacked school data one day before the CDC issued school reopening guidelines, reports Fox News.
• “Biden says Putin must go, is ready to use nuclear weapons first in ‘extreme circumstances’” – The U.S. president has abandoned plans to water down his policy amid fears Vladimir Putin may resort to deploying weapons of mass destruction, reports the Telegraph
• “Is the Western propaganda is deceiving us about Russia’s ‘defeat’ in Ukraine?” – “This is not a time for self-congratulation,” writes Dalibor Rohac in the Spectator.
• “Weather history books rewritten as Victorian archives push back records by close to 180 years” – A project digitising the Met Office’s archive has found that several records were set much earlier than previously thought, reports the Telegraph.
• “China’s coal revival may slash energy bills, but at a wicked ecological cost” – Xi Jinping’s return to coal is alarming for those who take global warming seriously, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
• “A Common Culture: The Wonky Idea of a Shared National Culture” – “Without addressing these questions of moral values and personnel, Graham’s case for a putative common culture looks too undefined to attract active support from dissidents,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
• “Imposing the idealology of the woke left on businesses, shools and media is bad for everybody” – The Russian invasion of Ukraine has reminded us that we live in the real world, not the world as we would like it to be.  In this context, it is especially troubling that governments have allowed myths about the purpose of business to proliferate, writes Shanker Singham in CapX.
• “Britain ISN’T racist” – Britain is not an institutionally racist country, writes Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert in the Express.
• “Forbes is slammed for tweet referring to ‘pregnant people’ in story” – Forbes is facing backlash over a story referring to “pregnant people” about the complications Covid caused in women who were expecting a child in during the first year of the pandemic, reports the Mail.
• “ Identifying as a different 'gender to one's biological sex will not give trans people ‘dignity and respect’” – Seven years after the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee opened the first inquiry into transgender equality, the ensuing debate has become polarised and heated, writes Debbie Hayton in UnHerd.
• “What’s happening with biological male trans - women in womens' sports is because of cowardice” – President Trump’s former adviser Sebastian Gorka tells talkRADIO trans swimmer Lia Thomas has “destroyed the future of female athletes”.