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Biden’s ESG Tax on Your Retirement Fund

July 20 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting

WSJ, 7/19/22: Biden’s ESG Tax on Your Retirement Fund BlackRock CEO Larry Fink wrote in 2020 that “sustainable investing is the strongest foundation for client portfolios.” Al Gore said in 2021 that “you don’t have to trade values for value. Green can enhance returns.” These claims haven’t aged well: ESG (environmental, social and governance) funds have trailed the market since... Read more

A passenger with an $11,000 ticket to Europe says Air Canada ‘begged’ 25 people to get off the plane because it was too heavy to take off. Then they lost his bag.

July 13 | Posted by mrossol | Business, Education, Interesting

Business Insider, 7/13/22: A passenger with an $11,000 ticket to Europe says Air Canada ‘begged’ 25 people to get off the plane because it was too heavy to take off. Then they lost his bag.

By Hannah Towey
An Air Canada passenger flying to Europe had his flights delayed 10 times on Saturday. On one of the flights,... Read more

We must prepare for war

June 29 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, Military, Western Civilization

Sir Patrick Sanders says we face ‘a 1937 moment’ Get this man some more tanks. The war in Ukraine is not a brief and bloody spat in a faraway country of which we know little. Instead, as the new Chief of General Staff General Sir Patrick Sanders warned in a historic speech at RUSI today, “This is our 1937 moment,” as “we are living through... Read more

illogic [and dangerous?] leftist thoughts

June 28 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Critical Thinking, Democrat Party, Health, Interesting, The Left, US Constitution

This is the kind of illogic happening by the Left: “Let’s get one thing straight: Freedom doesn’t mean you have the right to recklessly endanger others by refusing to get vaccinated.” Robert Reich, 7/31/2021 on Twitter “I don’t know who needs to hear this but every person should have control over their own body.” Robert Reich, 6/26/2022 on Twitter To the... Read more

India’s Untouchable Queen of the Dead

June 27 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, Religion

Narratively, Dec. 9 2015, By Maria Tavernini Legions of the sick and elderly go to great lengths to die in India’s holiest city. One mysterious woman guards this fiery entrance to eternal bliss.

Photos by Andrea de Franciscis She sits down under the arches of the ancient temple blackened by soot, guarding the sacred fire — an... Read more

How to fly a Spitfire – UnHerd

June 23 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, Patriotism

UnHerd, June 23, 2022. By Will Lloyd. The hangar is patriotically dressed with tiny flags and a large resin model of a Sunderland bomber. Miniature pilots in its cockpit have painted smiles. Sensible women are handing out buns and tea. Forties jazz plays; I might be in a JB Priestley novel, or at a village fete. The war may never have... Read more

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