A curious tale of the North Sea winds

IF I POINTED out that all dogs have four legs, then said therefore all four-legged animals are dogs, it would raise an eyebrow or two, though in these woke-soaked days some might hesitate before disagreeing. It is of course a non sequitur, a conclusion that doesn’t follow logically from the previous statement.

Here’s another one, and see if you can spot the error: we’ve been using windmills for hundreds of years, therefore we can generate constant and virtually free electricity if we put up lots of wind turbines, especially at sea, where the wind is both constant and stronger.

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After decades of denial, the Pentagon finally admits it’s baffled by UFOs

After nearly eight decades of official denial and obfuscation of the UFO phenomenon, the new head of the Pentagon’s UFO analysis office made a remarkable admission last month.

During a briefing with reporters, Jon Kosloski, director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, admitted that the U.S. government is stumped by several “true anomalies.” According to Kosloski, “There are interesting [UFO] cases that I, with my physics and engineering background and time in the [intelligence community], I do not understand. And I don’t know anybody else who understands them either.”

Critically, the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies are so perplexed by some UFO incidents that, per Kosloski, “We’re going to need the help of academia and the public to address some of these.”

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US: Trump outlines sweeping policy agenda in TV interview

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday sat down for his first network television interview since being elected on November 5. He outlined several sweeping policy changes — both domestic and international — during the course of the discussion.

Trump said he intends to enact many of the changes he has in mind for the economy, immigration, foreign and defense policy and more, as soon as he is sworn in on January 20, 2025.

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Powerful! Moving! Brave!

There is a crisis of Jew hatred in this country. Antisemitism is emanating from the extreme right, the radical left and, to be truthful, from segments of the Muslim and Arab communities — a bitter irony, given that they, too, experience discrimination and hate.


The “extreme right” gets top billing while Muslims get a timid embarrassed mention?

What sort of fantasy world does CIJA live in?  I get they don’t like being lumped in with the “White Oppressor” class because it voids their chance of winning Preferred Victimhood Status among the DEI crowd but seriously they need to get a grip. Show me where CIJA lifted a finger in defense of White people demonized by DEI these past two decades.

There are probably more Jews For Palestine at Canadian Hamas rallies than members of the “extreme right”.

These constant slurs won’t win hearts & minds. 

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THOMSON: It’s not Trump Derangement Syndrome, Canadians just aren’t very big on self esteem

“Show me on this map where the mean orange man hurt you, Canada.”

That is what our country’s top clinical psychiatrists should be asking Canadians, based on their reactions to President-elect Trump’s posts on social media.

You have to wonder, why is Canada’s ego so fragile? It’s a question sociologists will have to study in the years following Donald Trump’s second presidency, because never in our history has the election of a foreign head of state so immediately, completely and inexorably, thrown our country into such a fluster of existential hysteria.

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Donald Trump promises to pardon January 6 rioters on ‘day one’

In his first sit-down news interview since winning a second presidency in November’s election, Donald Trump renewed promises to pardon his supporters involved in the attack on the US Capitol in early 2021.

He also doubled down on promises of mass deportations and tariffs in the conversation with NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker – the latter of which he acknowledged could cause Americans to pay more after riding voters’ complaints about higher prices back to the White House at the expense of Vice-President Kamala Harris.

“I’m going to be acting very quickly. First day,” Trump said in the interview, claiming convicted Capitol attackers had been put through a “very nasty system”.

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Net zero plans for Armed Forces could ‘put soldiers at risk’

Ministers are forging ahead with plans to use electric vehicles (EVs) for combat on the battlefield despite warnings from military grandees that they could put the Armed Forces at risk.

The Telegraph has learnt that the Ministry of Defence will be ramping up testing of battlefield EVs next year at the Army’s Bovington Garrison in Dorset, home of the Tank Museum.

The testing, described by an insider as “putting these vehicles through their paces”, is at an experimental phase, but is an expansion of plans first mooted under the Conservative government on the development of combat EVs.

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Trudeau’s immigration plan hinges on ‘highly unlikely’ departure of 2.4 million people

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to fix immigration in Canada depends on the biggest exodus of people since at least the 1940s — one that many economists doubt is feasible.

Slamming the brakes on record-setting population growth requires 2.4 million non-permanent residents to leave or change status over the next two years, according to the government’s forecasts, which also see 1.5 million new temporary arrivals during that time.

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Assad may have fled, but Syria’s rebels are far from saviours

The regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has fallen. On November 27, a rebel coalition led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a rapid-fire offensive against Assad’s forces. Barely a week later, Aleppo and Hama — Syria’s second and third largest cities respectively — were under rebel control. Emboldened by these successes, Syrian opposition forces carried out offensive operations targeting Homs and came knocking on the outskirts of Damascus, dreaming of regime change.

By the time he fled the country, ending a 24-year rule that veered from optimism to brutal repression and death, Assad was facing a revolt on three fronts. There was the HTS advance from the north, via Homs; an uprising in the east, where a US-backed alliance led by Syrian Kurdish fighters seized the city of Deir el-Zor; and in the south, where rebels said they seized control of the southern city of Daraa on Saturday.


Trudeau’s Syrians should now head home as well …

I wonder if our cities will see combo Hamas and Syria celebration riots?

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Doug Ford’s Tories leading as potential election looms, survey shows

Doug Ford

As Premier Doug Ford mulls gambling on an early election, a new poll suggests that might be a safe bet.

The latest Abacus Data monthly tracking survey for the Star found Ford’s Tories at 43 per cent — well ahead of Bonnie Crombie’s Liberals at 25 per cent, Marit Stiles’ New Democrats at 21 per cent and Mike Schreiner’s Greens at six per cent.

I hope the Libs die for good this election.

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UAP and Mystery Drones More Serious Than Being Told

In recent weeks, a wave of unusual aerial phenomena has captured global attention, challenging both official explanations and conventional understanding of drone capabilities. From military installations to civilian airports, these incidents have raised significant questions about airspace security and the nature of these unidentified objects.

… This modern incident bears striking similarities to the events of July 12 and 29, 1952, when a wave of UFO sightings over Washington DC prompted military intervention. The key difference between these cases lies in the response: while the 1952 incidents saw military jets scrambling to intercept the objects (unsuccessfully), the current sightings have generated no apparent military response despite occurring in what should be some of the most closely monitored airspace in the world.

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Anti-terror probe launched into Oxford Union Israel debate which labelled Israel an ‘apartheid state responsible for genocide’

The Oxford Union has a reputation as one of the world’s most prestigious debating societies and is a bastion of free speech.

But it has found itself at the centre of a censorship row after publishing muted footage of a debate on genocide.

Jonathan Sacerdoti, a Jewish journalist and Oxford alumnus, was heckled and abused during a speech opposing a student motion branding Israel an ‘apartheid state responsible for genocide’.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Trump more popular than Trudeau in Canada, survey shows

OTTAWA—As Canadian politicians jockey to position themselves as the best to deal with a mercurial incoming U.S. president Donald Trump, a wary Canadian public is cool to any compromises and supports a tough approach, according to a pair of new polls.

Many Canadians — 40 per cent — are prepared to cut Mexico loose in any trade talks Canada has with the United States, and most — 56 per cent — are not prepared to welcome any influx of migrants fleeing northward to escape Trump’s threatened mass deportation orders, according to an Abacus Data poll over the last week shared with the Star.

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Conrad Black: Biden about to be relegated to the dustbin of history where he belongs

Most of the current international problems in the world are directly traceable to the vacuous ineptitude of the superpower. Despite the remarkable development story of China, there is only one superpower and for the past four years the United States has been somnambulating through a nightmare of millions of desperate illegal immigrants streaming across the border. Despite warnings even from his own supporters, the senescent outgoing president poured gasoline on the fires of inflation and allowed the United States to fall behind China and Russia in the development of hypersonic weapons (though it remains in other respects the world’s greatest military power — that couldn’t be so quickly squandered). U.S. President Joe Biden’s ambiguity about Russian designs on Ukraine was an invitation for a Russian invasion and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, who should have been court martialed for incompetence and insubordination, confidently told lawmakers that the Russians would capture Kyiv within a few days.

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