ZeroHedge "Permanently" Suspended From Twitter -- Bloomberg -- February 1, 2020

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The libertarian financial website Zero Hedge was permanently suspended from Twitter on Friday after it published an article questioning the involvement of a Chinese scientist in the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus.

On its website, Zero Hedge’s pseudonymous author “Tyler Durden” said he received a notification from Twitter that he had violated “our rules against abuse and harassment.”
Earlier on Friday, BuzzFeed reported that the Zero Hedge website shared the name and personal information of a scientist who it said may have knowledge about the source of the virus, whose details then spread across the internet.

In a piece titled ‘Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?’, Durden included a picture of a scientist at Wuhan’s Institute of Virology and suggested users could pay him “a visit” to find out more about what caused the outbreak.

I didn't follow ZeroHedge on twitter, but I have it linked at the sidebar at the right. I rarely check in.

On another note, you will have to google this if you want to read the article by Victor Davis Hanson: chaos in Europe -- it's tricky being world's largest importer of gas, oil and critic, too.

This is so cool. I first started talking about Europe being the first continent to become completely dependent on foreign energy imports many years ago. So, now Victor Davis Hanson has also noted the irony:

Despite its cool Green parties and ambitious wind and solar agendas, Europe remains by far the world’s largest importer of oil and natural gas.

Oil output in the North Sea and off the coast of Norway is declining, and the European Union is quietly looking for fossil fuel energy anywhere it can find it.

Europe itself is naturally rich in fossil fuels. It likely has more reserves of shale gas than the United States, currently the world’s largest producer of both oil and natural gas. Yet in most European countries, horizontal drilling and fracking to extract gas and oil are either illegal or face so many court challenges and popular protests that they are neither culturally nor economically feasible.

The result is that Europe is almost entirely dependent on Russian, Middle Eastern and African sources of energy.

The American-Iranian standoff in the Middle East, coupled with radical drop-offs in Iranian and Venezuelan oil production, has terrified Europe — and for understandable reasons.

Over at the sidebar at the right, "the big stories." Page 1 of the big stories will take one to "Europe at a tipping point." This is the very first data point:

European Energy became a big story on May 18, 2013, when the EU Council President predicted that  Europe might become the only continent in the world to depend on imported energy.

How prescient.

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My Book For The Week

The 60s: The Story of a Decade, The New Yorker. This is the third in a series of reprints from The New Yorker. The 40s and the 50s were very, very good. What little I have read of the 60s seems not quite as interesting. Not sure why that would be.

But we will press on for awhile. I got this book several years ago, read some of the articles, but not many. Will try again.