Germany’s ban on nuclear is an act of self-harm

The Energiewende has led to sky-high energy costs and political instability – for no environmental benefit.

Almost every country on Earth today has pledged to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions. The vast majority of them have also set spurious target dates for doing so – usually by 2050. So far, only a handful of industrialised countries have succeeded in almost fully decarbonising their electricity grids. They have only achieved this with a heavy baseload of either nuclear power and / or hydropower.

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Diddy faces fresh crisis as his lawyer Tony Ricco quits rapper’s case with VERY mysterious statement

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is facing a fresh crisis after his lawyer Anthony Ricco stepped down from his legal team with a very cryptic statement.

In a motion for withdraw of counsel filed in New York on Thursday, Ricco said ‘under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs’.

The notice added that discussions had been had with lead counsel Marc Agnifilo and Ricco before the motion was filed.


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Inside Justin Bieber’s heartbreaking decline as friends claim Hailey is ‘deeply concerned’ for the singer

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A Proposal for a Settlement to the Ukrainian War: Remember the Holodomor

My interest and concern regarding the war in Ukraine come naturally. My mother was born in Ukraine, and her story of harrowing flight from her village with her mother and brother in the middle of a snowstorm in the dead of night, pursued by a squad of White Russians and Ukrainian irregulars, remains fresh in my mind.

My father was born in the Russian oblast (administrative division) of Georgia near the border of South Ossetia, Stalin’s home region, and was the spitting image of the Russian tyrant — short, muscular, with a heavy mustache, a tendency to violence, and, like Stalin, played the piano. A racketeer who had the mayor of Montreal in his pay, he kept an enemies list and occasionally acted on it. In some sense, a domestic version of the Russia-Ukraine conflict occurred in my own home.


Watch this Rubio interview on recent encounters with Zelensky, he must be suicidal.

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BAROOTES: Blink all you like, you won’t miss a thing in Liberal leadership race

 

Oh, Canada’s Liberal leadership race — could it be any more fixed and favouring the few?

It’s like watching a rerun of a show you never liked in the first place. The contenders are all singing the same tired tune, obsessing over Trump’s tariff threats as if they’re the only issue that matters, while conveniently ignoring the real challenges that shape the Great White North.

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Immigration minister says Canadian universities bringing in too many Indian students

Immigration Minister Marc Miller accused Canadian universities of sourcing too many students from India, and said he expects a better “diversity” of international students in future.

He also said Canada needs to return to relying on “quality” over “quantity” of immigrants. “I think we do need to make sure that the Canadian brand does focus on excellence, on quality, and less quantity,” he said.

How about none from anywhere? A few bankrupt universities is not the loss some imagine.

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Hillbilly Home Truths

If you watch nothing else online this year take it from me and watch last week’s speech by US Vice-President J.D. Vance at the annual Munich Security Conference. It’s only 19 minutes long, including all the preamble pleasantries. It’s delivered by a man who is not afraid to tell hard truths, even to friends. And boy-oh-boy did the assembled European elites hate what they were told. To say that the applause was muted would be a gross exaggeration. It was more stunned silence and the gritting of teeth from the assembled Eurocracy.

It is remarkable the impact this speech is having around the world.

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Trade war: What do Americans think of their former best friends in Canada?

I’ll be fine with a few less Tim Horton’s blighting the land.

STRATFORD, NEW JERSEY — The closest Canadian stronghold to Donald Trump’s Trade-War-A-Lago is a bright, spacious fortress with plenty of free parking in the suburbs of Philadelphia, 230 kilometres northeast of the Oval Office. It is a command centre and commissariat where the True North is revered, the current American president is reviled, annexation will be strenuously resisted, and a Maple Dip costs US$1.81, tax included.

A bit ironic that the article features Tim Horton’s a foreign owned and long faded national icon known more for its substandard 3rd World service than as a symbol of “Canadiana”.

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The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right

And just like that, we are back in 2017. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, is posting ridiculous hyperbole on his socials and mouthing off from Mar-a-Lago, as he always has.

In the last 24 hours, however, the global political and media classes have gone back to gnashing their teeth and wailing in the way they did in Trump’s first term. It’s disgraceful! It’s sub-literate! He’s Vladimir Putin’s puppet! He’s reckless and utterly out of control! And that, of course, is the point.

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How Universities Get Away With Hiring Radicals

Fellow-to-faculty programs have seeded academia with activists.

In the days after the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Jemma Decristo, a UC Davis professor, took to social media to express support for the violent energies that had erupted in the Middle East. “HELL YEAH,” Decristo wrote on X, responding to a report that protesters had set fire to the Israeli embassy in Jordan. Reposting news of protests at the United States embassy in Lebanon, Decristo added, “[fire icon] to the US embassy. US out of everywhere. US GO HOME. US GO HOME.”

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