As I begin the promotion of my new book, I Will Not Eat Crickets (my first in the United States), I am delighted to see that the best campaign is being waged against me by those to whom I declare war in its pages. From the U.N. to Bill Gates, the globalists are all engaged in a desperate bid to prove that their lives and opinions are somewhere between satire and infamy, and that I may even have fallen short in some passages of my long declaration of war on globalism and its elites.
Reading the press these days is a laugh. Let’s see:
In its crazed crusade against plastic, the EU has just announced that its next victim will be the little shampoo bottles in hotels, so the Old Continent will soon become a tax haven for dandruff.
The WHO has issued a high alert for an outbreak of parrot fever that has apparently already killed five people. I am left wondering if symptoms include the appearance of feathers, or the constant repetition of random words.
Brussels has called to boost vaccines for different types of hepatitis, in the same week that a batch of strawberries with hepatitis with Moroccan origins has been discovered in Spain. European agriculture, still at war against globalism and the environmentalism that is bankrupting them, has used this discovery to remind us of how the wonderful environmentalist policy of the EU forces them to comply with the demands of countless health and sustainability controls that are not required for products coming from outside of the EU. (READ MORE: The Whole Ugly Hustle of Globalism: Itxu Díaz’s I Will Not Eat Crickets)
The U.N. has once again unmasked itself to show its alignment with the pro-Palestinian cause and accuse Israel of being the cause of everything that’s wrong in the world. There is no longer any doubt as to whose side the U.N. is on. Just take a look at the last few years, and you will see that, whatever the debate, it is always on the wrong side.
Scientists (whoever they are) have also spoken out harshly this week: They denounce that climate change is changing the “personality” traits of Antarctic penguins. Apparently, they are becoming more timid and scared. I’ll tell you how the story ends: It’s your fault that Antarctic penguins are less talkative because you used a gasoline-powered car to go to work, and it’s probably also the fault of farmers in Illinois, Castile, or Poitiers for over-watering their fields of cereal.
Bill Gates has traveled to Brussels to visit the city’s sewers for World Toilet Day. The image of Gates, smiling, with half his body inside a stinking sewer, supporting I don’t know what cause about toilets, is all you need to know about his proposal that we eat his synthetic steaks. I hope he at least washes his hands before continuing his gastronomic production. I guess somebody told him that the best chefs are always a little crazy.
And, if all this wasn’t excuse enough for me to plug my own book, the WEF has published a report on the top three risks for 2024 (go grab some popcorn). The dire threats are, in this order: extreme weather, fake news, and political polarization. So, the WEF concludes that the biggest risks this year are the WEF itself: No one promotes extreme weather quite as much, no one spreads more fake news, and, of course, no one contributes as much as the Davos Forum does to political polarization.
I am unable to choose my favorite news item this week, although if I have to choose one, I would go for the parrot fever outbreak denounced by the WHO. I wonder who was the brute who decided to have a grilled parrot when he could eat stewed pangolin.
Translated by Joel Dalmau.
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