And especially the untaught history of Communism’s environmental crimes against humanity, aside from Communism’s genocides and mass oppression.
good post.
They just do not like the rest of the world telling them what to do.
I did not know about what the Soviet's were doing but it does not surprise me. Evil thoughtless ideologies produce evil thoughtless results.
Al Gore: “In the absence of a legal controlling authority.”
That is the essence of progressives - to do whatever until caught.
No respect for the principle of the enumeration of powers - the list of what is authorized - one of the major construction tools of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The left affects its socialism *by proxy* that circumvents the *OATH* that progressive politicians took, and their engagement of many proxies per left end runs around:
U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Clause 3
“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution . . .”
The Soviet Fishing Fleet, did what it was ordered to do - until caught, and that was rare.
Just as John Kerry keeps driving for the Muslim Brotherhood (and John Brennan), whose objective is to destroy every scrap of an alliance between Israel and [fill in:] _________________.
“When I started to work on this memoir,” he wrote, “some serious people asked me: ‘Do you really need it?’” In answering them, he offered a quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. “There can be no acceptable future,” Solzhenitsyn said, “without an honest analysis of the past.”
The above is the conclusion of the article. It is sad our establishment will never do this.
I can remember in college a professor telling us the humpback whale was probably going extinct. Not once did he mention the Soviets were mostly responsible for it.
He meant they would take every advantage they could.
In this case, they deliberately cheated for no real purpose.
This absurdity stemmed from an oversight deep in the bowels of the Soviet bureaucracy. Whaling, like every other industry in the Soviet Union, was governed by the dictates of the State Planning Committee of the Council of Ministers, a government organ tasked with meting out production targets. In the grand calculus of the country’s planned economy, whaling was considered a satellite of the fishing industry. This meant that the progress of the whaling fleets was measured by the same metric as the fishing fleets: gross product, principally the sheer mass of whales killed.
Whaling fleets that met or exceeded targets were rewarded handsomely,
This is certainly a valuable lesson in the foibles of distant, unaccountable government bureaucracies run by people who have no idea what they are doing and no attachment to reality. One needs only look at the current crop of environmental “experts” to see history repeating: John Kerry, Greta Thunberg, Al Gore, Leonardo DeCaprio, etc., etc. while real environmental-related scientists go unheeded and scorned.
Ironically I am about three-quarters the way through reading Moby Dick. It is quite an education in whaling during the early nineteenth century.
Never trust people who don’t anthropomorphize. Never trust people who don’t get sarcasm.
Low IQ, Non English speakers, autistics and aspergerers, asians, etc. They’ll kill you and eat you if you show weakness.