Paris Accords again
The administration still doesn’t seem able to get its stories straight. Yesterday’s Founders Broadsheet reported the White House’s repudiation of reports, first published in the Wall Street Journal, that the Trump administration was considering remaining in the Paris Accords anti-carbon pact. But Secretary of state Rex Tillerson and national security adviser HR McMaster now seem to be doing just that, with Trump’s top economic adviser Gary Cohn coordinating the negotiations.
Why so much indecision and wobbling over policy? Political scientist James Ceaser argues that it’s because of the absence of an integrated set of ideas stemming from a single principle, what some used to call “ideology,”
China and North Korea
Former CIA director James Woolsey warns of North Korea’s “other nuclear weapon,” a satellite-based electromagnet-pulse (EMP) weapon, which is likely already in place, and by knocking out the electric grid over a wide area, “could be even more devastating than a nuclear attack that was targeted on individual locations.”
China meanwhile has gone into full Orwellian mode in preventing its population from accessing all information not approved by the central government. A government newspaper describes these new strictures by the normative Western constitutional term, “rule of law.”
U.S. media
Double standards and hypocrisy seem to be the ruling fault of U.S. major media, witness firings and non-firings at ESPN.
A half century ago former FCC chairman Newton Minow famously called television a “vast wasteland.” Last night’s Emmy festivities suggested that the change since Minow has been to give up art and entertainment in favor of amateur partisan politics, an anti-Trump Emmy rage fest.
On a humorous note, non-stop anti-Trump columnist Dana Milbank complains that Trump is killing him, literally.
And who will mourn the demise of Rolling Stone, a publication in free fall since publishing a false gang rape article that unraveled. It’s now up for sale.
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