As Bjorn Lomborg states in his article, Africa produces more energy from renewables than anywhere else in the world, but they also have 700,000 deaths from indoor pollution caused by renewable energy. It is a tragic figure yet it is all but ignored by those who lead the charge towards renewable energy.

Equally as disturbing is the fact that by now, world leaders realize that there is no way to reach their green energy goals in 2030, 2040, or 2050. In short, now is not the time to sell your old energy technology stocks as there is not enough time, money nor technology to rid the world of fossil fuels.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-lockdown-climate-fossil-fuels-electricity-energy-production-africa-carbon-emission-11632943155

“The best laid schemes of mice and men can still go wrong” and so it is with the plans of the nations and their egos. Mankind has always tried to move forward but history has shown us that there is a natural progression to our progress. We cannot force an issue and all the fabricated rules and laws written to support a policy fail when faced with reality. As much as we use technology, it only works when it is developed reasonably and naturally. Any rush to implementation by mankind always runs up against reality.

There is no doubt that in many parts of the country, the term “starter house” means entering a bidding war where the starting point in California is $440,000 and the median cost is about $800,000. Could it be due to, in California, a Code of Regulations on housing is over 21,000,000 words in length, or because all new houses must have solar panels which add about $8,000 or more to each new house? Of course not, as the government, both State and Federal are there to “solve” the housing problem. We might very well have a housing problem because of the State and Federal regulations which aim at taking away local control of housing and centralizing all decisions by bureaucrats far from those who lives they attempt too “better.”

At the Battle of Jutland, Admiral Beatty was heard to say, “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships” after three of his “greyhounds,” his beloved battle cruisers blew up and were sunk in a few minutes. What was wrong was his management; Battle Cruisers were not designed to engage battleships in a gun-to-gun battle, but Beatty misused his ships with the results of several thousand British seamen lost for no purpose.

The same poor management seems to have infected the F.B.I. Instead of focusing on their primary function, for one, they have recently displayed an amazing ability to interject themselves in politics to the ruination of their reputation and for disastrous consequences to the nation. There is no record of any police force becoming politicized to the benefit of the nation they swear to serve. History is littered with examples of police forces which have served their political masters and the abuses that have been done.

A recent study by the California State University system of 50,000 Freshmen, found that sixty-eight percent needed remedial help. This is the future of our country? What parent would knowingly send their child to a university and pay the enormous fees so their child can receive a remedial education? Are the parents really that dumb themselves? Or is the university not advising the parents that their child should not be at the university? Are the universities so hard up for money to pay their tenured staffs and bloated diversity/equity bureaucracies that they will lower their standards and ruin their reputations by eventually graduating sub-par students?

The article linked below should be extremely alarming to all of us.

• Did phony videos produced by Communist China cause a stampede by our “leaders” to actions which destroyed tens of thousands of businesses, created huge financial upheaval, consolidated power in the hands of unelected bureaucrats and power-hungry politicians and harmed the educational options for a generation of youth?
• Did the “leaders” of German base their support of lockdowns, quarantine facilities, etc., based on clinical results from Communist China?
• Did a major Dutch agency determine that the cost of a lockdown would six times more than the benefit, but the Dutch government decided to go with lockdowns due to a fear of negative optics in the news?
• Using information from Chinese journals, did the WHO recommend a rush to ventilators which killed thousands of Westerners?
• When it was widely realized that the New Zealand Department of Health had based their recommendations based on information from Chinese journals, the references were deleted.

The common thread was that unverified reports and claims from Communist China were used by Western “scientist” and “leaders” to create public policies which were disastrous and non-effective. Where was the checking for accuracy, the due diligence that we should expect from those who handle the levers of power over our lives? As time goes on, will more revelations become known, and we ever hear one apology for massive public policy failures? Of course not, for being in government, and increasing it appears in science, means never having to say, “I’m sorry, I failed.” https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/masked-ball-cowardice

After decades of huge spending on education and the installation of a “progressive” educational agenda, we continue to hear cries of “systemic racism” as the cause of failure within our public-school systems. To cover the failure of the “progressives” (I am never quite sure what they which to progress too) regarding the disastrous reading and math scores among some minorities, they now wish to eliminate correct and incorrect answers in math and science (as that is racist) along with any notice of hard work and merit.

After spending over $21,000,000,000,000 (Trillion) on the War on Poverty, and having not shown much for the effort, spending additional dollars as proposed by the Administration certainly would seem to fufill the definition above. Government policies which lead to a lack of individual responsibility cannot be solved by spending alone; there is a direct link between certain personal values and success or failure. This is nothing new and was pointed out fifty-six years ago by Daniel Moynihan in The Moynihan Report, yet we continue to see policies which create generations of despair. The numbers do not lie, nor does history; it is time for a change of policy regarding poverty in this nation. https://nypost.com/2021/07/02/helping-poor-kids-takes-more-than-money-they-also-need-stable-homes/

Have you ever heard of a Federal or government program at any level which increased efficiency, or cost the tax payers less or even delivered what it promised? Think hard. I would venture to say that the military is the one area that at least has a degree of accountability. But others? I recently posted a story about how the Department of Education has received over $1,000,000,000 but has not increased reading or math scores. In this example, the Feds want more wind power but there is a problem; more wind power kills more birds, some of which are endangered. So the Feds tell the power company do do something about it or pay a fine. Do something about it? Like what? Put up warning signs for the birds to read? So the power companies pay the fine (and pass along the cost to you and I). Then the Feds want more wind power so more turbines go up and more birds are killed. Watch for the next step; the Feds will have to hire “inspectors” to monitor the power companies and guess what? Taxes will be raised for the new “inspectors”. Get it? Government is a perpetura motion machine of creating a situation which creates problems that they did not plan for, then they have to raise taxes to fix the problem they created. Pretty smooth, hey? Follow this link to a story on the careless birds vs. wind turbines. https://www.wsj.com/articles/expanding-wind-power-while-killing-fewer-migratory-birds-is-bidens-quandary-11622885401?page=1

Since it was created, the Federal Department of Education has received over $1,000,000,000 (trillion) in funding with no noticable improvement in our children’s reading or math scores. It is a study in failure. But, there is more; The DOE uses an accounting system for student loans that would lead to fraud charges and jail time if used in the private system. They seriously underestimate future payments and thus the value of their loan holdings with insufficient reserves. This article is a study in massive government systemic failure that will be paid for by every taxpayer. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-u-s-student-loan-program-in-a-deep-hole-one-banker-thinks-so-11619707091?page=1