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THE VOICE of energy realism
Mark Mills explains why the green energy transition is not happening. 5 min On the limits of wind and solar power. 5 min Nigel Ballantyne On the beauty of nuclear power. 4 min What sea-level rises? 2 min Welcome to COP 27 1 min RC The tragic tale of peaks and troughs in windpower 8…
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Open Thread – Tues 25 Oct 2022
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Guest Post: Speedbox – Postcard from Kislovodsk Redux
Mrs Speedbox is back in Kislovodsk, Russia. I wasn’t able to travel due to work commitments and on this trip she will catch up with her numerous friends and the remaining relatives in the city. Our youngest Miss Speedbox has accompanied her on this occasion. In my phone/video calls with Mrs Speedbox, I have been…
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Black is White, Freedom is Slavery, 2+2=5
Newspeak rules in reportage of climate and energy issues in the mainstream media. In 1984 George Orwell introduced the concept of a new way of speaking to consolidate the grip of totalitarian regimes by thought control as well as brute force and intimidation. He spelled out the design and purpose of ‘newspeak’ in an appendix…
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Open Thread – Weekend 22 Oct 2022
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Weekend Reading #9
John Daniel Davidson picks over the corpse that is conservatism in The Federalist and wonders about what might be fruitfully revived in its stead. Henry George at The Critic argues that the issue if euthanasia is the logical terminus, figuratively and literally, of liberalism. At IM-1776, DC Miller and eugyppius discuss the fortunes of globalism…
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Your lying eyes
In a desperate attempt to convince their idiotic readership that the fetus in early pregnancy is just a clump of tissue, the Guardian has published an article involving a series of images, provided by a pro-abortion group, of “pregnancy tissue” in a petri dish. They do this while also dating the ’tissue’ therein from the…
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Wokeism, Soft Power and the Globalist American Empire
This is a very good short video that outlines Darren Beattie’s argument that Wokeism is the official ideology of the GAE, which it uses at home and abroad against its enemies. To the extent that it is a successful instrument in the projection of power, the success of Wokeism is inevitably tied to the success…
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Open Thread – Tues 18 Oct 2022
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Mater’s Musings #61: Still? Really? Seriously?