Friday, April 3, 2020

Introducing the Epoch Times Review (draft)

This "newspaper", which is what I call it to extend a courtesy that probably would not be reciprocated, accepts comments from people who trust them with their credentials including a credit card number during "normal" times; however, they do not print comments that criticize them or their agenda.  Hence, this blog.

Today, to get started, I would like to point out the unfairness and essential dishonesty in referring to Covid-19 as the Chinese Communist Party Virus (CCP Virus).  The Epoch Times provides no evidence that there is a basis for naming the virus differently from how the medical community named it.

The two-pronged and self-contradictory agenda of The Epoch Times is the promotion of Christianity (actually a non-standard cult-like sub-species of Christianity) and Capitalism (actually Anti-Communism).  A close reading of the Sermon on the Mount is enough to convince most of us that Christianity and Capitalism cannot co-exist - particularly now that the finite nature of the Earth is thrust upon us in the form of the expected limits to growth.  Indeed, now more than ever, some can get rich but only by making many more poor.