Saturday, December 10, 2022
China Covid-0 policy
Friday, December 9, 2022
Montessori Education
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Mohsen Shekari coverage
Iran has executed Mohsen Shekari. I wanted to know what was the official charge. So I go to Associated Press where I read Mizan said Shekari had been arrested on Sept. 25, then convicted on Nov. 20 on the charge of “moharebeh,” a Farsi word meaning “waging war against God." Hm, not clear what he actually did. Just above it reads Shekari was accused of [...] attacking with a machete a member of the security forces. Ok, he was accused of that, but was that what he was guilty of? Doesn't say.
Maybe BBC is better: On 1 November, the court found Shekari guilty of fighting and drawing a weapon "with the intention of killing, causing terror and disturbing the order and security of society" and convicted him of "enmity against God". So, he was guilty of fighting but was convicted of enmity? What's the difference between "guilty of" and "convicted of"?
I'm sure CNN explains everything: He was reportedly convicted of “waging war against God” for stabbing a member of the Basij paramilitary force.
I highly doubt that that police officer was God himself, so the only rational explanation is that today's journalism is dead.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
GM opens EV factory in Ontario
Trudeau and Ford made a big deal, as usual, of this event. I predict that in less than three years this is going to prove to be a disaster, the way of the ethanol and the biodiesel. EVs are just the new hoopla politicians around the world love to exhibit when go on new spending sprees. Ford says "The market dictates and the market’s going to be EV". But the provincial and federal governments each invested $259 million. How exactly is this "the market"? And that is not investing, that's spending. If it was investing private entities would do it. The federal government offers up to $5,000 off the cost of new electric cars. Is that supposed to be investing as well? It's just more manipulation of the market, so that when the entire EV global scheme collapses they have the market to blame it on. At a time when people are struggling to find ways to spend less and save money to fight rising cost of living and interest rates, politicians throw more than half a billion dollars at their cosmic vision.