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Towards Transhumanism and Lab Grown Babies Through GMO Synthetic Blasphemy *** Science and Medicine is Close to Crossing the Line, that not only Transgresses the Boundary of Medical and Spiritual Ethics, but a Line that will Redefine what Being Human Means, and Will Open the Door for almost Any Abomination they Wish to Attempt. - The Establishment has PROVEN They Do Not Have any Ethics or Sufficient Level of Competence in Current Medical Practice and Have Violated Our Trust NOW. - Giving These Sick Mad Scientist and Satanic Transhuman Psychopaths the Green Light to Play God would be as Stupid Volunteering for Medical Trials Under the Care of Dr. Menglee - The Angel of Death. - ONCE THAT LINE IS CROSSED - THERE MAY NOT BE A CHANCE TO TURN BACK *** How Tech Is Breaking the Rules of Biology. Posthuman with Emily Chang - 263,187 views Dec 2, 2024 Bloomberg Originals *** PROBLEM: Mad Scientist's Working For Evil Government and Military Traitors in Accordance to United Nations Global Compact For Population Reduction Intentionally Destroy the Health and Fertility of American Citizens... - REACTION: Desperation to Find Solutions to Rampant Sickness, Lifelong Health Problems and the Threat of Human Fertility Falling Next to Zero Drives Mass Panic and Fear, Leaving Citizens Willing to Accept Any Solution... (When the Health and Fertility of the Population would Quickly Return to Normal without the Intentional Barrage of Poisons and Toxic Chemicals) - SOLUTION: Creating Virtual Twins that can be used to Hack and Control the Original Person, and Selling an Evil Violation of Ethics, Privacy and Personal Rights as a Blessing of Modern Medical Science. - The Evil Government and Medical Mega Corporations Will Decide Who's Lives They Will Save and Who Can Have Unnatural Babies Created Through Genetic Engineering of a Patient's Body to Program GMO Human Abominations and Hatch them in Laboratory Pods - (This is just the First Step, to get the Masses Used to the Idea. The True Sales Pitch Will Come When they Build Fear and Desperation to Unbearable Heights) *** *** *** THIS IS HOW THEY SELL EVIL INSANITY AS MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS AND MODERN MIRACLES THAT WILL BENEFIT HUMANITY - From birth to death, tech is stretching the boundaries of biology. In this episode of Posthuman, we explore the discoveries that could transform reproduction, healthcare and how we die. Technology that once seemed like science fiction is rapidly becoming reality, transforming the very essence of our existence. In this four-part series, Emily Chang unravels the future of being human in an age of unprecedented innovation. This video has been updated to correct the title of Insoo Hyun, director of the Center for Life Sciences, Museum of Science. Watch more Posthuman with Emily Chang:    • Posthuman with Emily Chang   #MadScientists FAIR USE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES Mirrored From: https://www.youtube.com/@business

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I understand that Biden has about as much to do with directing U.S. foreign policy as Humpty Dumpty or the Man in the Moon. Nonetheless, the semi-secret cabal of supposed experts who will run things for another 40-odd days does so in the name of Joe Biden, which makes Biden a convenient shorthand for “those in charge.” And “those in charge” clearly mean to undermine the Trump team as it assumes responsibility for our national security on Jan. 20. There’s no better example of this than Biden’s recently announced final military aid package for Ukraine and the lifting of restrictions on the use of U.S.-supplied missiles. We’ve been told by no less than Trump himself that he has a plan for Ukraine, a plan that will end the current bloody stalemate and re-establish peace and stability in Eastern Europe. There’s been much speculation concerning the outlines of such a plan. The article by Armando Simon The American Spectator represents a vision that I would like to see realized, although I recognize that there’s a good dose of wishful thinking involved. (READ MORE: Trump Will Force a Compromise on Ukraine) Moreover, we’ve been treated to all sorts of optimism in the wake of the informal “summit” that accompanied the re-opening of Notre Dame this past week. One hopes that all the smiles and handshakes bespeak a willingness on the part of European leaders to put aside the snark that marked their response to the first Trump administration. Perhaps this time they might try to work with the leadership that he seems more than willing to provide. Some of them, Giorgia Meloni for one, appear ready to get on board. (READ MORE: Trump and the Advent of the Pax Americana) The Setup One can hope for many good things but hope scarcely makes for success in foreign policy. The most important of “Murphy’s Laws of Combat,” truly, the one that underlies almost all the others, is that “the enemy always gets a vote.” The same is true of foreign and national security policy, even — no, especially — when we exaggerate our power to shape the problems we face. The abiding sin of U.S. foreign policy since the end of the Cold War has been hubris, the conviction that our power and influence enable us to bend a recalcitrant world to our wishes. Even when we choose to withdraw behind our ocean “moats,” comforting ourselves with the notion that we are too big and too strong to need friends and allies, the world has a way of intruding — think Pearl Harbor, or 9/11, or any of a dozen other assaults on our way of life. We have, of course, too often foolishly engaged in “wars of choice,” but there have also been times when war has chosen us. So forgive me if I offer the suspicion that, with the best will in the world on the part of the new administration, the war in Ukraine will likely end very badly, and not just for the Ukrainians. The assumption that Putin wants a peace that the Ukrainians can live with beggars belief. Even if, as some believe, an opportunity existed several years ago for a negotiated peace, too much Russian blood has been spilled for Putin to accept anything less than the humiliation of Ukraine — and too much Ukrainian blood has been spent to accept it. The best the Ukrainians might hope for would be a frozen border, something akin to the Cold War’s “Finlandization” or the DMZ between the Koreas. More likely is a return to the situation that existed after 2014, a return to hybrid warfare, with “little green men” running rampant in the contested border areas. Given the predictable residual bitterness, Ukraine might also respond with its own “little green men.” Such persistent low-level conflict might be the best that the world can expect. Just as likely would be the disintegration of Ukraine into warring factions. Proportionally, Ukraine has paid an even higher price in blood and treasure than Russia, with massive casualties and infrastructure laid waste by repeated missile and drone attacks. We can comfort ourselves with the notion that an exhausted country will readily accept peace and simply go about the business of rebuilding. But history suggests that there will be bitter-enders who will refuse to accept this outcome, who will rebel against those who “surrendered.” Think of what happened in the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia, but magnified enormously. Or think about the thirst for vengeance that destroyed Weimar Germany and opened a path to a renewed and wider war. The Trap One way or another, this could get very ugly very quickly, and, even with the best will in the world and the best strategy for achieving peace, the Trump administration could well find itself contending with something akin to Afghanistan. No American troops, one would hope, although this begs the question of who else might police the line between Russia and Ukraine. Let’s at least hope we’d not allow ourselves to be drawn into that version of American “boots on the ground.” But a failed peace, particularly one to which our president has attached his name and our nation’s prestige, is not going to go down well. Herein lies the trap that Biden now seems to be laying for Trump. Since the election, and with much fanfare, Biden lifted restrictions on the use of the long-ish missiles we’ve supplied to Ukraine, enabling their use against bases from which the Russians have launched some of their most devastating attacks. Only days ago, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced a nearly $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine, while emphasizing that, since Putin’s invasion, the U.S. has provided some $62 billion in military aid. Since World War II, we’ve been treated, repeatedly, to bitter debates along the lines of “who lost” this or that country or interest. Who lost China, or Cuba, or Vietnam, or Iran, or Iraq, or Afghanistan? Time and again, these questions have been used to browbeat whichever American leader could somehow be blamed for an outcome nobody wanted. When everything goes awry and, “Who lost Ukraine?” becomes the complaint du jour, the Biden team is laying a foundation to shift the blame to Trump. As Democrats look ahead to 2028, a matchup perhaps with Vance, they are certainly recalling how the disastrous ending to our Afghanistan involvement marked the turning point in the American public’s perception of Biden’s competence as a president. They would love to turn the tables. They will say, “We did everything we could to save Ukraine.” They will trot out the list of all the weapons supplied, they will highlight all the billions provided. “Not our fault,” they will insist. “Trump owns this one. He promised peace, and brought catastrophe instead.” As the Afghanistan example makes clear, while the American people rightly disdain involvement in foreign wars, they also react angrily to any perception of national embarrassment — and they are quick to punish perceived failures. Avoiding the Trap But if failure looms in Ukraine, its most notable author will be Joe Biden. Every dollar of U.S. assistance has come with paralyzing strings attached or has been released and delivered long after it could have achieved decisive results. As one example, the Danes and the Dutch were eager to donate their F-16 fighter jets (fabricated in Belgium, not the U.S.), but the Biden administration dragged its feet about allowing this to go forward. Furthermore, as the Trump team takes up the burden of dealing with the mess they’ve been handed in Ukraine, they would do well to point out just how behindhanded Biden’s support for Ukraine has been. While the $62 billion might well have been spent on other priorities — hurricane relief comes to mind — it pales beside so much else the Biden administration has spent foolishly. By one estimate Biden has already spent some $620 billion on student debt cancellation, almost precisely ten times the military assistance sent to Ukraine. The Trump team might also point to the billions in military equipment abandoned to the Taliban Or they might offer context in the form of a comparison with what other countries have done. As a percentage of GDP, the U.S. contribution to the Ukrainian war effort lags far behind the Baltic and Scandinavian states, and Poland. One might dismiss this as reflecting their status as “frontline states” facing the Russian threat, but the Netherlands. On a dollar basis, even the much-maligned Germans have outspent us. Again, of course, I’m speaking here as a percentage of GDP — in absolute terms, the U.S. has spent far more. But these percentages strongly suggest that when the dark times come, as they likely will, neither Biden nor whatever Democrat wishes to become president in 2028 should be allowed to wrap themselves in the Ukrainian flag. The best outcome might have been peace built upon a humiliating defeat for Putin’s aggression, but that ship sailed a long time ago, with Biden standing uselessly in the pilot house. There are hard days ahead for the Ukrainians. There are also hard days for President Trump as he tries to fulfill his promise to bring a fair and just peace in Ukraine. History never offers a “clean slate,” and, inevitably, the pursuit of peace in Ukraine will be burdened by the repeated failures of the Biden administration. Part of making a good start, however, will require an honest accounting of these failures, and an adamant refusal to allow last-minute grandstanding by Biden to claim the narrative on the Democrat’s behalf. James H. McGee retired in 2018 after nearly four decades as a national security and counter-terrorism professional, working primarily in the nuclear security field. Since retiring, he’s begun a second career as a thriller writer. His recent novel, Letter of Reprisal, tells the tale of a desperate mission to destroy a Chinese bioweapon facility hidden in the heart of the central African conflict region. A forthcoming sequel finds the Reprisal team fighting against terrorists who’ve infiltrated our southern border in a conspiracy that ranges across the globe. You can find Letter of Reprisal on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback editions and on Kindle Unlimited. READ MORE from James H. McGee: A Pearl Harbor Reflection Biden Visits Africa Too Little and Much Too Late State-Sponsored Biological Terrorism and Multi-Dimensional Warfare The post The Biden Trap appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

On Monday, outside of the Manhattan courthouse where ex-Marine Daniel Penny was acquitted of manslaughter in the death of drug-addled psychotic and career criminal Jordan Neely, a host of perpetually aggrieved individuals howled for vengeance disguised as “justice” against Penny. “And people who keep asking, ‘Are we going to riot? Are we going to protest?’” said an unidentified woman who claimed she was the co-founder of the New York chapter of Black Lives Matter. “Is that what’s needed? Do glass have to break? Do cars have to burn for a black man to get justice in America?’ We can show out with peace. We can show out with facts. We can show with evidence and witness after witness. You give us nothing, and then you ask us to love this country.” Another even nastier activist going by the name Hawk Newsome was even more vitriolic… We need some black vigilantes. People wanna jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us? What brought on this avalanche of threats and recriminations? You already know. Neely, a homeless drug addict who had either a fatal or near-fatal dose of fentanyl in his system and who had made a practice of assaulting and harassing subway riders in New York — with over 40 arrests on his record — was up to his usual tricks using a subway car as a stage but in the wrong place at the wrong time. He announced that he was prepared to kill someone if he wasn’t supplied with a modicum of money from his fellow riders, and that jail was hardly a deterrent to his demands. So Penny confronted him and after a short struggle, he held him in a chokehold until Neely finally calmed down. But by then, given the drugs in his system and his inability to demonstrate he was no longer a threat to his fellow riders, Neely expired. Nobody wanted Jordan Neely to die unless it was Neely, who led an awful, squalid, disgraceful life and left the world as a pristine example of how not to exist within it. But by any reasonable interpretation, Daniel Penny did the right thing in intervening and protecting his fellow man in that subway car, and Neely’s death was accidental. If he had calmed down sooner, something it seems he couldn’t do because of the drugs in his system, Penny could have let him go and he’d still be alive. But he didn’t. And the Black Lives Matter of the world saw an opportunity in Jordan Neely’s death. So they raised hell and demanded “justice” for a drug-addled psychopath who lived a life in the gutter as a threat to everyone around him. Daniel Penny was branded a Klansman, a racist, a Nazi, and a villain, and New York City’s utterly embarrassing District Attorney Alvin Bragg put him on trial for Neely’s death. That case finally fell apart when it got to the jury. Despite a chorus of threats, both explicit and implied, the jurors refused to buckle to the BLM mob and set Penny free. And that touched off the unrest of the mob. But do you know what else it touched off? A wave of joy across the country. Most Americans understand that had Daniel Penny been convicted of protecting his fellow subway riders, the effect would have been to turn the American commons over to street criminals and other lowlifes. And rather than a Daniel Penny stepping forward to protect the innocent from a chaotic threat in the person of a man no longer possessing reason or behavioral discipline, the new standard would become those Philadelphia residents who, faced with a group of thugs gang-raping a woman on a SEPTA train, merely took out their cell phones to film the incident. The latter incident horrified many. Why wouldn’t anyone help that poor woman in Philadelphia? The Penny case was why. Given that Larry Krasner, the district attorney in Philadelphia, hails from the same George Soros/Defund The Police school that Bragg does, it’s entirely reasonable to process a threat like the one Neely posed and say that it’s better not to get involved. This is what the “Civil Rights” era has come to. And this is why the “Civil Rights” era is over. When you are somehow akin to James Earl Ray for standing up to street criminals on subways, we are no longer in a place where “justice” is being sought. There is a reason the BLM crowd kept saying of George Floyd that he should rest not in peace, but in power. Power was what the entire Black Lives Matter movement was all about. These aren’t people trying to redeem America. They’re hell-bent on destroying it. And not just America, by the way, but the entire concept of Western civilization, from its moral code to its culture to its economics and especially to its politics. Black Lives Matter is the end stage of the civil rights movement. It’s what you get when all the real battles against racism have been fought and won. When the “civil rights” crowd features grifters like Ibram X. Kendi who openly calls for “discrimination” as the answer for past discrimination, the shark has been jumped. Is New York a racist city? Almost certainly the answer is yes, but the racists are the Hawk Newsomes. What Daniel Penny did was not a racist act, it was an act of love for his fellow man. It was an act of protection. And, the argument for his imprisonment is that Penny should have pulled out his phone and recorded Neely as he assaulted, battered, or killed the people he was threatening. Because that’s what a post-Western civilization in New York looks like, and it’s the dystopian hellscape the “civil rights” crusaders of Black Lives Matter prefer to the declining status quo. Not surprisingly, that argument convinced no one. So instead Hawk Newsome called for violence. Because violence is the necessary harbinger of the end of civilization. There is no defending this. There is only a step — or several steps, if not a marathon — back from the brink. I’m going to say that while there will be other cases, whether like Penny’s ordeal or that of Kyle Rittenhouse or Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis cop unlucky enough to be in contact with George Floyd as he expired from his own fentanyl overdose (in a fair trial, rather than the mob-inspired kangaroo court Chauvin was subjected to, he would also have been acquitted in Floyd’s death), the terror of Black Lives Matter and the grift of the “civil rights” figures who came before them will not recover from this. America has had it with the nonstop racial pyromania of people whose bad faith is unquestionable. The Al Sharptons, the Benjamin Crumps, the Kendis, and the Hawk Newsomes have had their day, and that grift is over. An expanding number of black people, particularly black men, are becoming Republicans very largely as a repudiation of their antics. And an expanding number of people of other races are making it plain that they will not be cowed by threats and name-calling. Finally, we’re coming to a place of reason. The “civil rights” era, which has perfectly encapsulated the old Eric Hoffer quote that “every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket,” is now obviously a racket. And a shabby one at that. We can celebrate its legitimate triumphs and the ways it made our country more equitable and just. But now we can also recognize its obsolescence and abuses. Daniel Penny is free, as he should be free. And we are free to be equal citizens under the law without fear of the mob. It’s a new dawn in America, one which is long overdue. READ MORE from Scott McKay: The Old Game Continues Among the Worst GOP Senators Robert Reich’s Ravings Against Musk Are Pure Lunacy Well, Then, by All Means, Let’s Put Hunter Under Oath Now The post The ‘Civil Rights’ Era Is Over. Good Riddance To It. appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

The long nightmare of the Assad family dictatorship has come to a sudden end. Hafez al-Assad seized power in Damascus in a 1970 coup, and now, 54 years later, his son Bashar has fled to Moscow for refuge. Scenes of celebration across Syria testify to widespread hostility toward the regime and collective elation at its collapse. What sort of governance will emerge in Damascus remains unclear. Ideally, a constitutional process and elections could lead to a legitimate and effective administration capable of addressing the misery the Assads bequeathed to their long-suffering country. Alternatively, civil conflict and sectarian strife might ensue, or Syria could become a battlefield for regional powers like Turkey and Iran. Instability in Syria can rapidly escalate into a regional and international security challenge — but also a set of opportunities. (RELATED: Approach Syria With a Tragic Mind) Impact on Russia One of the biggest losers in this dramatic turn of events is Russia. Syria served as Moscow’s gateway back into the Middle East after it lost its connection to Egypt in the 1970s. Syria became a de facto client state, hosting Russia’s naval facility at Tartus on the Mediterranean coast. Although the significance of Tartus waned after the Cold War, its importance surged during Syria’s civil war, especially after 2013, when President Obama failed to enforce his “red line” threat. At that juncture, Moscow emerged as Damascus’s chief supporter. However, preoccupied now with its costly war in Ukraine, Russia could not come to Assad’s aid. Russia has not only lost a client but has also signaled to the world that it is willing to abandon allies. Memo to BRICS countries: Don’t count on Putin to save your skin. Any Russian loss is a potential gain for the West. Washington should seize this opportunity to maximize Russia’s defeat, potentially ending its Mediterranean presence altogether. Unfortunately, the Biden administration appears unprepared, as surprised by the fall of Damascus as it was by last year’s Hamas attack. What is lacking is an American strategy to capitalize on Russia’s loss. Impact on Iran The other major loser is Iran and its proxy Hezbollah, which served as Assad’s co-patrons. Like Russia, they failed to come to his rescue. Hezbollah had already been significantly weakened by Israeli strikes, while Iran faced its own domestic legitimacy crisis. The inability to shape developments in Syria exposes the so-called “axis of resistance” as ineffective. This moment demands a decisive American strategy to address Iran: stricter, effective sanctions coupled with back-channel diplomacy offering reconciliation, contingent on Tehran accepting longstanding U.S. goals — ending its nuclear ambitions and terminating regional destabilization activities. The collapse of the Assad regime is a profound blow to Iran’s regional strategy. This is a pivotal moment for clear-eyed diplomacy to reshape the Middle East. Washington must not squander this opportunity, though the current administration’s track record suggests it might. History calls for bold leadership. Jan. 20 cannot come soon enough. Impact on the Middle East and Europe There is, of course, a risk that victorious forces in Syria may take an Islamist turn, leading to a new catastrophe akin to the Taliban’s rise in Afghanistan. This worst-case scenario could destabilize Iraq and Jordan and threaten Israel’s border. While this outcome cannot be ruled out, it is not inevitable: Syria is not Afghanistan, and its revolution need not take an Islamist direction. Another consequence could ripple further afield, potentially impacting Western political cohesion. With the end of Assad’s brutal dictatorship, the legal basis for many Syrian refugees to claim asylum in Europe has evaporated, prompting calls for their return. Anti-immigration parties such as Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) and France’s Rassemblement National will likely intensify demands for large-scale repatriation. This could provoke controversial debates and bitter political divides. Radicalization within key Atlantic allies does not serve American interests, and similar pressures may arise in Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. What just transpired in Syria is far from a purely local matter. These tectonic shifts in the region carry global ramifications. The fall of Assad offers a potentially significant win for the U.S. and the West, but only if Washington crafts a foreign policy capable of securing that victory. READ MORE: Approach Syria With a Tragic Mind Ukraine and Syria: Biden’s Leftover Wars Ukraine Policy: the Big Win The post The End of the Assad Dictatorship: What This Means for Western Security appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

In democratic countries, one would expect that incompetent and corrupt politicians actively involved in scandals, deadly disasters, or other catastrophes would get voted out of office, fired, prosecuted, or at least retired into obscurity. But if they are pitching for Net Zero, the European Union promotes them. Spain’s Socialist minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, who the Spanish Congress is investigating for neglecting to strengthen dams, drainage canals, warning systems, and responses that would have mitigated the deadly consequences of the recent floods that devastated the province of Valencia — killing hundreds of people and destroying thousands of homes — has just been appointed to the European Commission. The president of the European Commission (the EU’s ruling body), Ursula von der Leyen, has quite a bit in common with the Spanish Climate Czar. When von der Leyen was German defense minister, she hollowed out the military with defense cuts while shuttering Germany’s coal plants and nuclear reactors. Her government made Germany dependent on Russian gas as part of the “Green Energy transition,” weakening Europe while filling Vladimir Putin’s war chest and emboldening him to invade Ukraine. Von der Leyen is herself under investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Belgian government on corruption allegations involving the purchase of over $2 billion in COVID vaccines, most of which were never used. She is being probed for “interference in public functions, destruction of evidence, corruption and conflict of interest,” according to the Belgian prosecutor’s office in Liège. It’s alleged that her husband, Heiko, is a lobbyist for Pfizer. Despite losing support among European conservatives who were her original base, von der Leyen narrowly clinched her reappointment to a new five-year term last month by a coalition of Socialists and Greens rallying to her cry for “massive investment in renewables.” Meanwhile, Ribera, who shows devotion to the climate cult by riding a bicycle to cabinet meetings — from her parked limo a block away — has been a key apparatchik in the pharaonic Net Zero programs pushed by von der Leyen. Asleep at the switch while 300 Valencians drowned in the mud, she has been instrumental in tearing up Spain’s countryside to install massive solar and windmill farms to save the world by 2050. Along the fertile agricultural valleys, rolling hills, and pasturelands off Spain’s southern coast where the country’s legendary prize bulls and Andalusian stallions have bred for centuries, thousands of acres are being expropriated to install solar panels arriving from China. “This could be catastrophic for the local economy,” says Jose Garcia Cea, who heads Plataforma SOS, a local group fighting the project. He fears that the damage to agriculture and tourism would turn thriving local communities into “ghost towns.” The communist mayor of Jimena de la Frontera, a picturesque town with a population of 7,000, says that the solar parks will create new “Green jobs.” But these would mainly consist of low-wage temporary work during the few months of installation. African migrants landing daily in the nearby port of Algeciras and housed in local hostels at EU expense could provide the labor. According to Garcia, projects currently up for building permission have been submitted by shell companies with hidden owners presenting inadequate environmental impact studies. He points to a map indicating how a solar farm is planned for a low-lying valley on an estuary near the sea, an area highly vulnerable to flash floods. The solar panels are powered by a dangerously toxic sulfuric gas that could poison the atmosphere through accidental leaks. Fifteen lobbyists for renewable companies have offices in the same building that houses the European Commission’s headquarters in Brussels. They have pushed for subsidies exceeding well over $100 billion to boost solar and wind, distorting the energy market and depressing Europe’s largest economies. A third of Europe’s electricity now relies on unstable sources. There is little sunshine in northern Europe during much of the year and the North Sea wind blows so hard at times that windmill farms have to be shut down as they overload the grid, costing a billion dollars each time. “Germany is buckling under the weight of ballooning renewable energy subsidies,” according to Bloomberg. GDP growth in what was Europe’s economic powerhouse has dropped to small decimals and major firms like Volkswagen are announcing mass layoffs and plant closures. They cite rising energy costs and stifling regulations designed to boost demand for electric vehicles (EVs) — which China produces more cheaply. The EU’s current tariff on Chinese EVs is 10 percent and while they are thinking of raising it to 35 percent, Spain’s Socialists have a captive market. They are offering subsidies to the owners of the 120,000 cars that got washed away in Valencia if they replace them with EVs. There is a further catch: The flood struck areas that won’t have the necessary electricity to charge them for months and there are no charging stations in the 70 worst-hit villages and towns. Brexit should have unshackled the U.K. to pursue rational energy policies. Instead, it’s competing with the EU for net-zero targets. North Sea oil exploration has been virtually stopped, with gas wells being capped using methods that prevent their ever reopening. Among the most controversial Green measures being introduced is forcing homeowners into strapping debt by requiring them to replace their gas boilers with electrically powered heat pumps whose cost can exceed $70,000 per unit. Record tax hikes unveiled last month in the new Labour government’s budget are going to finance the Green agenda even as Britain’s social services are collapsing and average living standards drop. Former conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tried to scale back the draconian climate measures and impossible target dates introduced by his predecessor, Boris Johnson. Aware of their unpopularity, Labour’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, initially spoke of reallocating $35 billion earmarked for net zero. But then, Special U.N. Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and former Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, flew into London on a private jet from his home in Canada to meet with Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves. Carney is also vice-chairman of Brookfield Management, a hedge fund heavily invested in renewables, whose holdings include Britain’s main producer of heat pumps. Carney’s Stalinist approach to saving the world is explained on his U.N. website: “Those who invest in achieving net zero … who are part of the solution, will be rewarded. Those who are lagging behind and are still part of the problem will be punished.” (RELATED: The Real Climate Change Disaster) His book Value(s), Building a Better World for All, in which he makes ample reference to the teachings of Marx and Lenin, envisions a Net Zero world in which “Assets will be stranded, used gasoline powered cars will be unsaleable, inefficient properties will be unrentable,” and the broken middle classes are “climate road kills.” (RELATED: Climate Change Socialism on the Attack) Ben Habib, deputy leader of Nigel Farage’s surging Reform party which gained parliamentary representation in the last British elections, told The American Spectator that “enforcing unpopular climate policies will inevitably result in growing restrictions on civil liberties.” Carney’s partner on the trusteeship board of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, has openly called for “Climate Lockdowns.” In a recent speech, the usually measured von der Leyen made a passionate appeal for censorship or “pre-bunking”: “We need to build societal immunity to information manipulation because research has shown that pre-bunking is much more effective than de-bunking,” declared the EU president who has led efforts to ban X and other social media platforms. Spain’s Socialists are trying to push measures that would place the country’s main television channels under virtual one-party control. Support for Green parties is otherwise vanishing. Greens are polling at 10 percent in Germany, five percentage points less than their vote in the 2021 elections. In Ireland, Belgium, and other countries, they have lost all parliamentary representation and have 12 seats left in the European parliament. EU mandarins are increasingly resorting to lawfare against critics of climate policies. Germany’s collapsing coalition government of Socialists and Greens has been trying to proscribe the surging right-wing Alternative for Germany which has made dramatic gains in recent elections. Repressive measures have reached the point that police raided the home of a pensioner at 4 a.m. to arrest him for calling the local Green party gauleiter an “idiot.” Ex-BBC star presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been arrested on charges of inciting public unrest after speaking at a farmers’ protest outside Parliament. A young environmentalist in Spain was slapped with a $35,000 fine for hanging a poster on the road to a hilltop castle protesting the construction of a mega solar farm nearby. Carney might offer advice in this regard. Some years ago, he played a key role in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s repression of a Canadian truckers’ strike over COVID mandates. He called for “following the money” in an open letter to Toronto’s Globe and Mail, to cut the truckers’ sources of funding, which led to the government freezing of individual bank accounts. Every tyranny needs a dynasty and Europe has them ready-made. King Charles III of England led the Green charge at a climate conference in Glasgow, where he called for a military-style campaign to mobilize the world for climate action. A close relative of Spain’s King Felipe holds a job at the U.N.’s climate office in New York, which a Spanish diplomat who held senior positions at the U.N. described to The American Spectator as a “front.” Spanish royals need to placate radical leftists in the government who are pushing for a referendum on the monarchy. In the last Cold War, Russia’s KGB activated extensive operations to penetrate European labor unions and sponsor terrorist groups to sabotage Western Europe’s energy. Europeans are doing it themselves this time around and saving Russia the work even as they lean on the U.S. to risk nuclear war to save them from Putin. Donald Trump must hold his promise to pull out of the Paris climate accords and expose the global “climate scam.” Americans should furthermore lock arms with the growing majority of Europeans fighting for their civil rights, cheap energy, and food security. READ MORE from Martin Arostegui: Kursk Is Not Worth a Nuclear War North Korea Is in the Fight Has Latin America Become a Base for Iran’s Terrorism? The post Climate ‘Changists’ Cashing In, European-Style appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Amazing. The flurry of statistics pertaining to President-elect Trump’s historic victory is not only amazing but telling. Let’s do the deep dive. The Trump campaign has posted a “Post-Election TikTok Overview.” The statistics, which include both post-election and election numbers, speak exactly to the reason that, against the odds, Donald J. Trump became President-elect Trump in 2024. Let’s take a look. Here are the account figures by specific accounts. The figures for the @realdonaldtrump handle are: 14.6 Million Followers 1.5 million followers added since Election Day (+11 percent) 1.4 Billion Views 225 million views added since Election Day (+19 percent) The figures for the @teamtrump handle are: 8.1 Million Followers 2.9 million followers added since Election Day (+57 percent) 2.4 Billion Views 703 million views added since Election Day (+42 percent) The @realdonaldtrump and @teamtrump handles combined are: 22.7 Million Followers 4.4 million followers added since Election Day (+24 percent) 3.8 Billion Views 928 million views added since Election Day (+32 percent) Recall the liberal media criticism and head shaking by Democrats when Trump showed up in person at a McDonald’s to flip French fries? Here’s this: McDonald’s Content Performance:  There have been 174 million views across 30,000 TikTok videos referencing President Trump’s McDonald’s visit. The McDonald’s visit videos posted directly by the campaign (@realdonaldtrump + @teamtrump) generated 5.5 times more views on TikTok (155 million) than Instagram Reels (28 million). Garbage Truck Content Performance: There have been 148 million views across 3,600 TikTok videos referencing President Trump’s garbage truck event. The garbage truck event videos posted directly by the campaign (@realdonaldtrump + @teamtrump) generated 5 times more views on TikTok (83 million) than Instagram Reels (17 million). Top Trump Hashtag Performance Hashtag Total Views Election Day #trump 34.5 billion 8 billion (+30 percent) #donaldtrump 14.1 billion 3 billion (+27 percent) #trump2024 9.7 billion 2 billion (+26 percent) #trump2024 5.7 billion 2.1 billion (+58 percent) #trumprally 1.4 billion 66 million (+5 percent) 49 billion* 12 billion* (+32 percent) *Note: This is less than the sum of the five because it counts UNIQUE VIDEO VIEWS. Some videos have more than one hashtag from this list and would otherwise be double-counted. So what do we have here? What we have is a 21st-century-style record of just how the considerable support for candidate Trump manifested itself in TikTok videos — as opposed to Instagram videos — during the election. As the future rolls on, obviously there will be other elections. Already the political elites of both parties are musing about their potential candidates in the post-Trump era election that will be 2028. Vice President JD Vance for the GOP? Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro for the Democrats?  Who knows. But without a doubt, 2028 campaign gurus will be looking at the kind of TikTok statistics listed above for then-candidate Donald Trump in 2024 to measure the popularity of whomever the candidates for 2028 turn out to be. Stay tuned. READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: The Borking of Pete Hegseth The Biden Corruption Draining the D.C. Swamp Picks Up Steam The post The Trump TikTok Post-Election Data appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

from WND: ‘All the people that are listed as going to get pardons, there’s sort of diplomatic immunity or Democratic immunity for crimes not even charged’ The author of “Laptop from Hell,” the book documenting alleged crimes by Biden family members, is now predicting the next pardons coming from Joe now that the president has excused his […]