Camille Desmoulins

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Please find My Retrospective on my Posts About Scott Adams at https://vieuxcordelier.blogspot.com/2026/01/my-retrospective-on-my-posts-about.html

My engagement with his work was mainly around persuasion.

Mike Shedlock argues that "No, ICE Is Nothing Like the Gestapo, Except When It Is" at https://mishtalk.com/economics/no-ice-is-nothing-like-the-gestapo-except-when-it-is/

My summary and comments are at
https://vieuxcordelier.blogspot.com/2026/01/mike-shedlock-no-ice-is-nothing-like.html

Yves Smith posts a transcript from Emertius Prof. Richard Murphy's podcast arguing that There Are No Free Markets.

https://vieuxcordelier.blogspot.com/2026/01/yves-smith-there-are-no-free-markets.html

Gender and Sex

Consensus among major health bodies (especially in medicine, psychology, and sociology) now recognises the difference between sex and gender, and medical research has to be cognisant of this difference. Although the people affected are a small minority, their concerns should be taken seriously.

https://vieuxcordelier.blogspot.com/2026/01/gender-and-sex.html

I am listening to Paul Beckwith (https://youtu.be/eXbjccFsZIg?si=sf4kbeiqwVxdJlD3) cynically predicting that COP28 will change the temperature baseline (from 1850-1900) so that the global temperature average for 2023 will be under 2.0 degrees C above the new average. Currently, 2023 global average will be more than 2.0 degrees C above the 1850-1900 average.
In other words, the collapse of the cryosphere is already underway leading to about a 20 metre sea level rise displacing >10% of the world population.
If Western countries are stressed by the current refugee crisis (110M from UNHCR.ORG), then they are totally unprepared for the coming refugee catastrophe (>900M).
BTW, the site of COP28 would be under water.
And we have people killing climate protestors (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/panama-shooting-mining-climate-darlington-b2444834.html).
I think we have moved from the OOPS stage to the FUCK stage.
New Report: Dire Sea Level Rise up to 20 meters (66 ft) Locked-In Even if Climate Goals Met

YouTube
Ted Rall: Israel Is Not Acting in “Self-Defense” http://dlvr.it/Sy6tWR
Ted Rall: Israel Is Not Acting in “Self-Defense”

Ted Rall discusses Israel Is Not Acting in “Self-Defense” Israel’s claim to self-defense ended hours after the Hamas attack, when the ID...

Peter Boyle: After the referendum: Don’t agonise, organise! http://dlvr.it/SxbBN0
Peter Boyle: After the referendum: Don’t agonise, organise!

Peter Boyle writes After the referendum: Don’t agonise, organise! The Yes campaign was deeply flawed from the start. It was designed to...