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Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Vox slams ‘traitor’ Pedro Sánchez as more than 1,500 migrants swim to Ceuta from Morocco

The biggest news story of the year so far has filled online, print and broadcast news this week as an estimated 49,000 illegal migrants entered the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco within 24 hours. The figure, attributed to estimates used by Spain’s Department of Defense Security and confirmed by two ministerial sources, would amount to roughly 59 percent of Ceuta’s population of approximately 83,000. The influx began with migrants swimming around the coastal border fence, enticed by a Spanish Supreme Court ruling earlier this month that prevented immediate pushbacks of people entering Spanish territory by sea. As the flow intensified, footage showed thousands gathering at the frontier before overwhelming the border infrastructure and entering the autonomous city. The Spanish government later announced the deployment of the armed forces to support the Civil Guard, despite initially refusing to rule out the declaration of a national emergency.

Spanish troops were eventually deployed to the streets of Ceuta after thousands of Moroccan migrants stormed the exclave on Thursday.

The Spanish territory, which borders Morocco in North Africa, was inundated with arrivals who overwhelmed police.

At least nine people have died trying to reach the exclave, Spanish authorities said.

Footage showed migrants swimming towards a crowded shore, while thousands more stormed through border gates, completely overwhelming the few border guards on duty.

While the land border is protected by a 10m-high security fence and is heavily policed by Spain and Morocco, arrivals by sea are protected by a new court ruling.

Migrants run from Spanish police officers after crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta
Migrants run from Spanish police officers after crossing from Morocco into Ceuta Credit: Antonio Sempere/AP  

Spain’s supreme court decreed earlier this month that migrants intercepted at sea while attempting to reach Spanish territory could not be returned to Morocco. That ruling follows a Spanish Supreme Court ruling granting amnesty and residency rights to between 500,000 and 1 million illegal immigrants already in Spain. 

Recent foggy conditions and warm sea temperatures probably led to the surge in arrivals. According to state broadcaster TVE, 2,000 to 3,000 people had crossed the border on Thursday.

However, the government said the ruling was not a factor in the sharp increase in crossings, instead blaming “exploitation by mafias and criminal organisations”.

Not everybody was convinced. Vox described the current crossings as an “invasion” and blamed Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s far left socialist government. Vox described the current crossings as an “invasion” and blamed Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government.

“It has been a slow trickle since the supreme court’s ruling [granting amnesty to a million illegal immigrants already in Spain,], but today has been an explosion,” a spokesman for the Guardia Civil told Reuters.

In Melilla, although the situation was more muted, clashes and fires were reported at Beni Ansar, the exclave’s only border crossing with Morocco.

When Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, declared shortly afterwards that “practically all” of them had returned to Morocco, relief quickly gave way to mockery – even though almost nobody had bothered to verify Madrid’s claims.

But away from the border crossing, a different reality is unfolding.

Up to 5,000 migrants remained scattered across the beaches, industrial estates and streets of Ceuta, officials estimated on Monday. Two migrant reception centres – one for adults and another for minors – had “collapsed”, the local mayor said.

But the official narrative from Madrid is that everything is under control, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s outrage, and her suggestion that Schengen free movement with Spain might have to be temporarily suspended is wildly overblown,  and merely a political ploy apparently. So too was the criticism coming from other European capitals.

German leftist weekly Die Zeit denounced what it called “fact-free Spain-bashing” and went further still: “The new arrivals were returned quickly and without bureaucracy, so precisely what conservative and Right-wing parties always demand has happened.”

It would be comforting if that were true. It is not.

The reality is far messier – and it brutally exposes the EU’s impotence on migration.

 Some reports from North Africa suggest these mobs of young male economic migrants are an Islamic 'forlorn hope', an expeditionary force sent to test European defences, as are the "small boats" currently ferrying many thousands of young Muslim men into Britain. A similar invasion is ongoing in Italy where for over a decade now swarms of illegal immigrants have descended like locusts on the tiny Italian ruled ] tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, where between June 1, 2023 and mid-January 2025, the reception center, or hotspot on the in the Mediterranean has welcomed a total of 126,000 migrants, states the Red Cross in figures released at the end of last week.

"The year 2024 that just ended brought a total of 45,997 migrants to Lampedusa on 1,095 different boats. Most of the arrivals were adult men (74.3 percent), followed by minors (19.4 percent) and women (6.3 percent)"

Madrid insists that “almost everyone” who entered the North African enclave during last week’s unprecedented influx has already been returned to Morocco.

But away from the border crossing, a different reality is unfolding.

Up to 5,000 migrants remained scattered across the beaches, industrial estates and streets of Ceuta, officials estimated on Monday. Two migrant reception centres – one for adults and another for minors – had “collapsed”, the local mayor said.

The real invasion is yet to come, but come it will. History, it i said, repeats itself and the Islamic attack on Europe has happened several times before in the last 1500 years. Islamic invaders from North Africa ruled the whole of Spain until around 1480; as late as 1680, they very, very nearly occupied Vienna. If they had not lost that battle, European history would have been very different. Now they are back, and they mean business. Islam does not come to integrate but to subjugate. Muslims "know" that they have a divine duty to convert the world to the Islamic faith. One has to have a grudging admiration for their clear conviction. Would that our woke Christian and political leaders had such clarity of purpose. Mass immigration has replaced military action this time, but the aim of these migrants is to undermine European civil society and the rule of law. We citizens and our leaders must wake from our complacent sleep before it is too late.  

Europe, under the EU, has been weak on borders by removing most of them and not protecting the few that are left. They've also been importing migrants en masse, often to the dislike of their own citizens, for decades. Those who arrive / are found / arrested are treated like victims and given what they need at the cost of tax-paying citizens, who don't necessarily support government action / inaction on migration and the recent EU Migration  Pact, dubbed Europe's suicide pact, came into force there has been a huge backlash against open borders policy. The message this sends to the world is that anyone can just rock up and stay and be paid for. Until governments change the message, this problem will never stop, it will only collapse the 'safe' countries the millions are flocking to.

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December 2019: Virtue Signalling Swedish Government Planned To Destroy National Economy Within A Decade
Swedish Social Democrat government, supported by the Centre Party and the Liberals, have revealed a plan that will be the Christmas delight of left wing bansturbators everywhere. They plan to outlaw the sale new cars with internal combustion engines in the next ten years. The ignorant lefties refer of course to vehicles that are powered … Continue reading

Swedish Government Review Of White Genocide (Immigration) Policy Concludes That Swedes Don’t Actually Exist ... ... so its OK to give the country to a bunch of foreign terrorists whose medieval culture inclues stoning, raping and beheading women who are not servile enough, making a living from drug dealing, extortion, pimping, poncing and mugging.If you are Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, atheist or pagan, there is no future for you in Sweden because the elite are fobidding the prosecution of Muslims for crimes that are not outlawed in Sharia law.

Swedish Immigrant Street Wars Spread: Stockholm Grenade Attack Follows Kurd-Turk Migrant Clashes
Violence between migrant gangs of different ethnicities vying for territorial rights to run organised crime has become the norm in Malmo, southern Sweden. Now it appears that as a consequence of the Swedish loony left government’s insane policy of flooding the country with third world migrants without

Convert Or Be Beheaded’ – Chilling Message Posted Through Doors Across Sweden
The notes, which are signed “ISIS”, say that any non-believers will be decapitated unless they convert or pay a “jizya” (religious tax). They have been posted through letterboxes in several cities including the capital Stockholm. They carry the Islamic State banner and claim the police “will not save you from being murdered”.

Muslim Only No Go Areas For Police And Emergency Services In Our Cities? - It Already Happened In Sweden.
Sweden continues to lead the way in surrendering its nation, culture and self respect to exremist Muslim dickheads, reasoning that the violent rapists and murderers of the relion of peace will thank them rather than kill them all. but the people all over Europe are waking to the betrayal of their elites.

Muslim Migrants Promised "Free Blonde Swedish Girls", Imam says Muslims Should Breed With Europeans to "Conquer Their Countries"
This content is so gobsmackingly evil, all we can say is if we hsad not spent hours authenticating it, we would not believe it. If after readin and watching this you still think uncomtrolled mass imigration from the Muslim nations of Africa and the middle east, you need to see a psychologist.

A Swedish Voter Loses It With The Woke Idiots Running His Country

Retired Swedish Police Chief Says Malmo Crime Skyrocketing Due To Immigration

Chief Superintendent Torsten Elofsson retired from police work in 2014 after 42 years on the Malmo police force, but he retains a key interest in the security of the city. Recalling his early days on the force, Elofsson said the nature and volume of crime in Malmo had changed significantly, going from the organised crime perpetrated by biker gangs decades ago to the migrant crime boom of modern Sweden.

Swedish Immigrant Street Wars Spread: Stockholm Grenade Attack Follows Kurd-Turk Migrant Clashes
Violence between migrant gangs of different ethnicities vying for territorial rights to run organised crime has become the norm in Malmo, southern Sweden. Now it appears that as a consequence of the Swedish loony left government’s insane policy of flooding the country with third world migrants without

Sweden's Migrant Crackdown Could Spell The End Of Open Borders Across Europe
As we have reported many times over the past year, Sweden has been more hard hit by the crimes and lawlessness of illegal immigrants from primitive third world societies than anywhere else in Europe. Even the Sweden hating socialists cannot ignore the epidemic of rape crimes, assaults and the general contempt for Swedish society, law, culture and traditions that illegal immigrants from Africa and the middle east have expressed through their actions.

Worlds Biggest Luxury Liner To Be An Immigtant Hostel?
Ocean Gala, a luxury cruise liner which when launched was the world’s largest passenger ship will be converted into a concentration camp floating hostel to house Sweden’s third world migrants. The only thing that may derail the deal with US Shipmanagers for floating migrant accommodation, would be failure to find a berth in any of Sweden’s large deep water harbours. Sweden’s open doors immigration policy has led to ... (immigration)

Germany Running Out Of Money, Debt Levels Exploding - The Price Of War, Open Borders And Net Zero?
An urgent warning about the state of Germany's finances has been given by Finance Minister Christian Lindner. Lindner has bluntly told the government that state borrowing are growing out of hand, and the government urgently needs to reduce spending. The other coalition members, the Social Democrats, and The Greens are both spendthrift lefties so dispute over spending is only expected to escalate

Another EU Member State's Globalist Government Collapses
We have recently been happy to report the victory of Georgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy, the defeat of Sweden's Social Democrat led coalition by a centreist group which includes the Eurosceptic Sweden Democrats, the resurgence of Germany's AfD and France's Rassemblement National. But somehow The Netherlands seemed immune to this trend. In spite of threats of a political upheaval, Prime Minister Mark Rutte somehow managed to stay in power election after election.

France's Week Of Riots Signal Failure Of Virtue Signalling Immigration Policies
The mass riots that rocked French society over the past week put the spotlight on the disaster of liberal mass immigration policies in the European democracies and the total failure by Western societies to assimilate the new arrivals welcomed through years of mass immigration, into the culture, traditions and laws of the host nation, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has claimed.

New Figures Show Brexit Has Failed To Take Back Control Of Immigration
Just over six years ago the nation's attention was focused on immigration, and particularly the 'Brexit' campaign's promise to 'Take Back Control' of our borders. Today the immigration issue is as predominant in many people's minds as news this morning revealed record numbers of migrants entered the country last year, while yesterday a record number of people were trying to make the hazardous crossing from France in small boats to enter the country illegally.

Germans Cheer As Refugee Center Burns
After a remarkable degree of restraint and tolerance was demonstrated by residents of EU cities where the refugees are being dumped in hostels, fed, clothed and given spending money, all funded by European taxes, the attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris in November and the string of sexual assaults that swept Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve have been the straw that has broken the camels back.

Ignorance Is Strength: European Parliament Read to clamp Down On Free Speech
The EU is blatantly pro American, supportive of moves towards global government and opposed to democracy, except for the kind of democratic assembly that merely rubber stamps bureaucrats' decisions. Moreover, the EU has well documented designs towards extending 'Europe' into the middle east and north Africa, which makes an insane kind of sense of Hausfrau - Volksfuhrer Merkel's determination to flood Europe with illegal immigrants from those regions.

Fear and Panic: EU Defence Budgets Boom Amid ‘Russian Threat’ Paranoia
Sssssh. Do you hear that? The sound of two horses, their firey hooves drumming on the ground, eyes glowing like embers as at full gallop they draw the chariot of Mars, the war god. Their names are Phobos and Deimos, Fear and Panic. Paranoia over a supposed “Russian threat” and the fear of terrorism following the Paris attacks are causing panic among NATO and EU nations, causing governments to vastly increase their defense budgets:

Merkel Isolated As Europe Splits Over Refugee Crisis
With the UK Prime Minister David Cameron still desperately trying to convince his 'revised terms' of British membership of the EU are a really good deal, when in fact they will change nothing, our attention should shift to developments elsewhere in Europe.

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Thursday, July 30, 2026

This Past Few Days A Lot Of People Seem To Have Discovered Net Zero Is A Scam

 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026/07/29/britain-cant-stop-climate-change-scrap-net-zero/

 Over the past twentyish years we citizens of the developed nations  have been fooled into believing that we could, by sacrificing our comfortable lifestyles, prosperity, industry (jobs), cars and warm,secure, well lit homes, lead the way in saving the world from catastrophic global warming, a futile gambit if there ever were one.

The point of the propaganda deployed to make the case for 'Net Zero by 2050' was that by combatting climate change we could develop new green industries that could provide a boost to the  European and North American economies through the replacement of traditional industry and commerce with new, clean,green technologies and industries. This ideology was most eagerly embraced by British political parties, with the leaders of the three main parties, Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats signing a binding agreement committing us to achieve Net Zero by 2035.

Since then all our governments have adopted national economic suicide as their energy policy. 

Serious advocates of Net Zero understand that getting a tiny island like Britain to the target would make no difference when countries like India, China, America and Russia continue to choke the planet. But a lot of other countries want to lower their emissions and so there was and is a huge opportunity for a country with an advanced manufacturing sector to build business opportunities.

Climate change is real ... and has been for around 4 billion years (according to best estimates,) is when the planet began to cool sufficiently for the formation of rock, water and atmosphere. And the climate has been changing ever since.

However The battle against climate change was lost the moment some plank decided it was caused by CO2, and further,  solely by CO2 emitted by human activity. Anthropogenic global warming was just one of H L Menken's political hobgoblins and net zero is a scam that rode on its back. 

To date the UK government has spent £200Bn in taxpayers money subsidising the construction of renewable electricity generation, with Germany, France, Spain and Italy, Europe's most populated nations spaffing similar amounts in pursuit of the unattainable.

Sticking with the UK as our example, because being British I have UK figures at my fingertips, the generating  capacity that £200nbillion is now producing half of all our electricity. However we consume only a quarter of our energy in the form of electricity.This is who Net Zero is unattainable, those clever scientists who decided we could get all our energy from windmills and solar panels were too dim to understand that energy and electriity are not the same thing.

And that renewable electricity generation relies on gas fired power stations being kept on standby at great expense to fill in when renewables are not available (i.e. when the wind does not blow through the long dark winter nights..

The result? We have the most expensive industrial electricity prices in the developed world so entire industries are shutting down or off-shoring to survive.

Former UK Energy Secretary and Clown Prince of Net Zero Ed Miliband harping on about "making us energy secure by getting off the rollercoaster of fossil fuel prices," "Making UK the world leader in clean energy,"  and about "homegrown clean British energy," cut no ice with British businesses or voters.

 It beggars belief how anyone can claim that the rollout of wind and solar power over the last decade has made us energy secure and has made the electricity supply “more British,” when we regularly have to import up to 30% of the electricity we are using via undersea cables from France, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Norway. 

How can it be secure when no one, not even Ed Miliband, can control weather? How can it be secure and “more British” when virtually the entire low-carbon energy industry growing up in the UK has been invested in, built by and operated by foreign companies? And owned by foreign governments.

The green levies charged onto our energy bills and CfD (contracts for difference) put billions of pounds into the pockets of foreign state-owned and foreign private entities...... The foreign owned operators basically have been afforded a virtually guaranteed revenue stream. Which they then leverage up to the eyeballs to optimise returns. That’s why US private equity - e.g. KKR- has been buying up large stakes. What should be producing utility industry returns is now a licence to print money, at the taxpayers expense.

When RWE says “If you’re in offshore wind, the UK is the best market in the world. The CfD is the gold standard – and it went to platinum when it went from 15 to 20 years.” , you know you 've been taken to the woodshed. The price of power in Great Britain is set by regulations already, rather than gas.

Then there’s the supply chain, which is again overwhelmingly foreign-controlled. The UK doesn’t have an offshore turbine manufacturer to its name, and only a small stake in the manufacture of towers, transition pieces and substructures. Ditto for cabling.

Ditch Net Zero! JustStopInsanity!

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Thursday, July 23, 2026

We Must Hope Mad Ed's Move To The Foreign Office Will Mean The End Of UK Governmednt's Net Zero Obsession

by Arthur Foxake, 23 July 2026: 

A decade ago, the leaders of the UK's three main political parties, David Cameron (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat) and Ed Miliband (Labour) signed a pledge that effectively moved the issue of climate and energy policy out of the democratic process.

Although it was not yet enshrined in law, this agreement opened the way for Theresa May to set the Net Zero target in 2019. We were quickly followed down the road to economic disaster by the EU which implemented restrictive laws on climate, energy security and farming. By 2021, our envoy to COP26, Alok Sharma was gleefully blowing up coal-fired power stations and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was boasting of aligning £130 trillion of the world’s financial assets with the Paris Agreement climate goals, or what we might now see as western economic suicide. 

Worse, people well qualified to criticise the crap science behind net zero were cancellled, hounded out of their jobs abd profesions and destroyed if the deviated from the official line on net zero. Fast forward to 2024 and Reform based their General Election campaign on a platform of ditching Net Stupid Zero. The pushback towards common sense did not stop there, earlier this year the current Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, signalled that the Tories no longer believed Net Zero was achievable by 2050. 

The number of journalists writing about the follies of Net Zero and UK energy policy grown (from almost net xero,) nd scientists were no longer being cancelled for expressing scepticism about the reliability of mathematical models on which the whole climate change case is built. The Net Zero juggernaut no longer looked impregnable, cracks were beginning to appear but progress was slow. Towards the end of 2025 however, Ms Badenoch announced that the Conservative Party plans to repeal the Climate Change Act, which underpins all the Net Zero nonsense.

They have also committed to abolish the Climate Change Committee. And now Mad Ed Milliband, the swivel eyed fanatic who had emerged as leader of the Net Zero cult after being deposed as Labour leader, and in 2024 had become Secretary for Energy and Net Zero in a newly elected Labour government under the hapless Keir Starmer, has been moved to another department in government and the Labour government under a new leader (Andy Burnham,) and with a new, more sane Energy Secretary seem to be embracing the Drill Baby Drill approach to energy secuity. 

In the USA Donald Trump, elected for a second term much to the disgust of lefties and progressives, revered many of the net zero policied of the previous deomcrat aministration and EU member states becant to rebel over draconian measures to force adoption of net zero policies as the disintegration of the climate catastrophe hoax gained momentum.

It is interesting that this change of heart has come from people who have largely never had to wonder about the engineering marvels that had tooccur behind the scenes to ensure the lights stayed on when they turned on their cookers. Perhaps the blackout in Spain and Portugal earlier this year has focused minds on the dangers of too many intermittent renewables on the grid.

We can now, with our national grid under extreme stress on low wind days and imports of electricity vial undersea cables from France, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Norway regularly running at between 20%vand 30% of total UK demans, see that the empty rhetoric of the “Saudi Arabia of Wind” and “Green Energy Superpower” was the triumph of narrative over numbers and optics over substance. These people in wonk-land never had to worry about choosing between heating or eating; were not concerned about increasing energy debt and were totally at ease as heavy industry collapsed. They are ignorant of maths; the closest they have ever come to imaginary numbers is the increasingly implausible cost estimates from the CCC. They are also ignorant of economics as they clapped like seals at the “nine times cheaper than gas” mantra. We should welcome their Damascene conversion but be cautious that their new message might be just as fickle as the old.

As the case for Net Zero crumbles more with every missile fired across the Strait of Hormuz and Kemi’s Conservatives become more scetical of climare science every day Ed Miliband’s claim that Nigel Farage and Reform are “investment crushing, job destroying, bill raising, poverty driving, science denying, Putin appeasing, young people betraying bunch of ideological extremists”. Ironically this description is a far better fit on Ed's fanatical Climate Catastrophe cultists.

I think this is what psychologists call projection. Miliband is accusing his opponents of wanting to do the very same things he is already doing himself. Jim Ratcliff’s INEOS has ended all UK investment because of Net Zero policies pushing up taxes onNorth Sea oil and gas and expensive energy prices. This, of course, destroys jobs too. Miliband is pushing up bills by pressing ahead with Allocation Round 7, extending contracts to 20 years and offering prices that are much more expensive than gas-fired generation, and of course high bills drive poverty. Miliband denies the physics of intermittent renewables and seems totally unaware of the laws of thermodynamics.

Net Zero is not achievable without the huge amounts of copper needed for the cabling, grid equipment, motors, machines, appliances, etc for an all-electric economy/society Worldwide.

Copper needs copper ore and it is estimated that near 700 million tons of ore would be required over the next twenty years – about the same amount mined to date since copper was first invented as a resource by Man.

The biggest indicator in the market place is price – it tells among other things the relationship between supply and demand.

Were Net Zero achievable and on-course, the demand for things made with copper, thus copper, thus copper ore would be huge, and prices of ore would be climbing exponentially.

But that is not the case. In fact ore prices have been easing, showing that supply and demand are about balanced.

Price says, no Net Zero.

This was completely foreseeable. The only way to achieve anything close to “net zero” is to impoverish the British people. The only way people will accept being impoverished is if the government becomes tyrannical.We are talking about real impoverishment here, not just one fewer holiday per year and a smaller car. New Zero would rationing and surveillance at levels worse than those during the Second World War.

All of this should have been foreseen by our political leaders, scientists and opinion shapers and by by anyone with an IQ higher than the average brigk.

Since the people who lead us, the scientists who advise them and the propagandists who shape opinion have IQ's far higher than the average individual (allegedly,) we can only assume that they put personal and class interests ahead of the interests of the British people.

The UK establishment cares about its own power and influence, not just in Britain but around the world. It will sacrifice whoever it needs to sacrifice in order to maintain that power and influence, as it has always done.

Climate change policy has been led by the UK in alliance with the part of the US establishment that it has historically had influence over.

It’s a con job the sole purpose of which has been to try to neutralise the power and influence that oil and gas confers to the nations that have it. Our establishment used to control the oil and gas in the world and have fought hard over the decades to maintain that control. When it was no longer possible, they came up with climate change.

They literally couldn’t care less who they impoverished in the process. UK establishment figures think that those in the population that don’tagree with their ideas – NetZero, mass immigration.- are ignorant scum. They pretty much say it openly when the've had a few beers or done a line or two.

 

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Scientists says Nuclear Is The Way Forward For Clean Energy – Do Ursidae Defecate In Sylvan Landscapes?

 

Climate Scientists' Mathematical Models Of Reality Wrong Again…New Study Shows Jet Stream Strengthening, Not Weakening
recent research  by Samantha Hallam et al published in the journal Climate Dynamics looks at the seasonal variations over decades in Northern Hemisphere jet stream latitude and speed over land for the period 1871–2011. The authors report that they found no evidence of weakening of the sort climate alarmists have been warning about for the past three decades.

Shock for The Green Blob - Rewilding is to blame for Mediterranean forest fires
Or at least, to be acccurate, rewilding is partially to blame for Mediterranean forest fires. Which is darkly amusing as that man most insistent upon rewilding, George Monbiot, is trying to tell us that it’s all about climate change.

Official Advice - Prepare For Blackouts This Winter
The UK government is putting plans together for days of organised blackouts this winter, in what they call a "reasonable worst-case scenario" for energy shortages, according to reports in manstream media. Naturally they are blaming this on the embargo on importing gas from Russia but in reality Britain has never imported any more than a small amout of its gas from Russia. The real reason politicians and energy company CEOs are panicking is entirely due to their obession with obtaining all our energy from intermittent sources like wind and sunshine ...

UK Households Are Paying Wind Turbine Owners To Not Generate Electricity
On another near windless day here in the United Kingdom, Boggart Blog came across a very interesting piece if news. According to figures published by the business and management consultancy LCP, british taxpayers have been paying operators of wind turbines farms for the time their windmills were NOT generating electricity increased to record levels last year ...

Net Zero Is A Dangerous Fantasy, But Scientists Believe In Fairies It Seems
With oil and gas prices rocketing and the highly propted sustainable energy sources performing way befow expectations the energy crisis currently gripping Europe (with worse to come as food shortages start to bite, polticians still seem more intent on pandering to the green lobby and chasing the dream of a fossil fuel free world rather securing the energy and food supplies needed by the people they serve.

New UN Report on Climate Change – Nothing New, Nothing True
The latest United Nations (“UN”) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) report, published this week, once again, in scaremongering tone and the language of the panic stricken, claims that the planet is in peril (we are facing climate disaster, the clock is at one minute to midnight, we must take urgent action to destroy civilisation if we are to save the planet, the usual over - dramatised guff designed to spread fear and panic,) basically the same claim as they have been making at least twice a month for the past 20 years.

We need energy security – not Net Zero
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.

Net Zero Gone With The Wind - Boris Johnson Plans Seven New Nuclear Plants And Shelves Wind Expansion
Reports in mainstream media suggest Boris Johnson has done a U turn on his recently announced massive expansion of wind powered generating capacity. Sources in Westminster claim Boris has shelved his masterplan for a giant, floating wind farm in The North Sea and the government will reconsider plans to double or even treble the number of wind turbines in the countryside and approve plans for up to seven new nuclear reactors instead.

Climate Change Research Paper Censored by The British Hydrological Society For Telling The Truth
The Daily Sceptic today published an article by retired research scientist James Dent, whose specialist field was hydrology and meteorology. Mr. Dent was involved in research projects aiemd at understanding the factors influencing climate, and their effects on environments, [ ... ] he was the World Meteorology Organisation Chief Technical Advisor to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre in Bangladesh, a low lying nation especially prone to flooding ....

Freak Weather Around The World Begs Questions
With Britain and other parts of northern Europe basking in unseasonably warm temperatures which are forecast to last for a few days, while parts of the USA gring to a halt under a blanket of snow dumped by freak storms are, accoring to climate scarmongers, a signal that irreversible warming had arrived, it is perhaps timely for a hot topic from ten years ago, geoengineering came under the microscope again. This report from Global Intel Hub seems a good way to kick off the debate. ... Continue reading >>>

The True Cost Of The Green Energy Boom Is Now Being Realized
For four decades we have been fed a constant stream of propaganda assuring us that green energy was the only way forward if we wanted to secure supplies of the energy essential to a modern society while preventing the environmental catastrophes that would be the inevitable consequence of climate change caused by the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emitted by human industrial, commercial and social activity. ... Continue reading >>>

Electricity cuts and power crisis predicted for Britain’s New Year Holiday
Shapps carefully omits to mention that the government’s only contingency plan for providing the power needed to meet peaks of demand (a sudden cold snap for example) is to spark up the thousands of diesel generators the earth loving politicians have concealed in goods containers on compounds sited around the country. Yes you read that right, diesel generators ...

Now Even ‘Hockey Stick’ Mann Admits The ‘Pause’ In Global Warming Is Real
“It has been claimed that the early-2000s global warming slowdown or hiatus, characterized by a reduced rate of global surface warming, has been overstated, lacks sound scientific basis, or is unsupported by observations. The evidence presented here contradicts these claims,” the paper in Nature Climate Change says.

German Scientist Confims Climate Change Ia A Politically Motivated Scam
Even as the inbred idiot Prince Charles was babbling to a hand picked audience about the skid marks in his underpants being caused by Climate Change, a somewhat more scientifically literate person, Dr. Friedrich Karl Ewert, a retired geologist and data computation expert, has confirmed what those of us dubbed 'climate deniers' have been telling you for years ...

It Looks As If Carbon Credits Scam Has INCREASED CO2 Emissions
As the climate change scare becomes more and more exposed for the money making fraud it always was, they green weirdie beardie, rope sandal wearing tree huggers get more hysterical and stupid in their arguments that we must all return to medieval lifestyles, the billionaires like Al Gore who hope to profit from it keep flogging the dead horse and the angrier and more vicious the left wing hate mobs become in their witch hunts.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Why Ukraine's Banderite Elite Hope Forcing Men Into Military Service Will Keep The War Going

 

The despairing cries of a woman who stands, helpless can be heard along the whole length of the street, as masked men grab her husband, then bundle him into a waiting van. Within seconds sh is a forlorn figure, weeping in the middle of the now deserted street. This is Odesa, but scenes like it, captured on phones and posted online, hammer Ukrainian cities as relentlessly as Russian missiles. Since Putin’s full-scale invasion began, over a million Ukrainians have been conscripted to defend their homeland. And, as voluntary recruits have dried up, the army has begun resorting to the same methods faced by that couple in Odesa. .

The process is brutally simple. Draft officers, often accompanied by police, snatch military-age men off the streets, before delivering them to recruitment centres. There, many are pressured through threats, intimidation, and physical abuse to pass military medical examinations and sign draft papers. Men with serious conditions — including HIV, tuberculosis and even cancer — are routinely declared fit for service. Whether they like it or not, the recruitment officers must meet quotas; the only question is who fills them. Yet with Ukraine’s wealthy elite reluctant to heed the call, even as their closest allies advise them to accept defeat and surrender to save what is left of their country Kyiv’s recruitment crisis is becoming a class crisis too, one that could cause chaos long after the guns fall silent.

War is always ugly. Always. No exceptions. In war, morality becomes flexible. Both sides do things in the name of victory that they wouldn't do in peacetime to each other, to neutral parties, and to their own citizenry. The winner of the conflict gets to justify, rationalise, and sometimes just forget their own offences while the loser gets blamed for the war and everything their side did becomes a war crime or a genocide or w/e else the winners want to call it. Thus Ukraine's propagandists keep spinning propaganda to turn crushing defeat by an overwhelming force into a kind of victory.

Case in point, the US operated concentration camps and interned Japanese Americans in WWII. Were they better than the Nazi death camps, yes, but then our territory and infrastructure wasn't being decimated on a daily basis either. Had we faced an invasion of our homeland, had the US lost the war to Japan, this would not be merely and embarrassing historical footnote and we would probably not have been able to sweep this under the rug so easily.

The longer the conflict goes on, and the more dire the situation becomes for either side, the more decisions are ruled by fear and desperation rather than sound judgement. Fear and desperation make for poor decisions. War is one of those rare occasions where the top layers of society are truly in jeopardy of losing their wealth, power, and status. In normal times, people who possess wealth and power have little to fear. The two things ruling classes fear are war and revolution, because when the system, the army, the law, and the government that protects the ruling class and allows them to be a ruling class are defeated, they are no different than anybody else. They can be shot dead as easily as a homeless man on the street. Anything they own can be seized by force of arms. 

That's what's really going on here. The desperation of Ukraine's corrupt western leaning leaders and elites is showing in their tactics. The soldiers generated by this effort are almost certainly not worth the public backlash that is already building against them, but they're not being rational anymore. They're terrified of Putin and of being reabsorbed into Russia. They're terrified of signing any treaty that doesn't bind the EU or US or both to come to Ukraine's defense actively because they know that Russia can rearm and rebuild faster than they can. Never mind about Putin, the US will never agree to that. They'd know that if they were thinking rationally, but they're not. They're afraid of the Russians, they are terrified of going into exile because interpol have issued arrest warrants for them over embezzlement of cash aid, and they're desperate to find some way out of this dilemma.

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Risk of a nuclear incident at the Kursk nuclear power plant,’ because of Ukie drone strikes warns IAEA“There is a risk of a nuclear incident at the Kursk nuclear power plant,” said Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) following his visit on Tuesday (27 August) to the facility in Kurchatov, close to the Russian border and the area curenly occupied by Ukrainian troops. He added that he had been shown evidence of damage caused by Ukie drone strikes during his visit to the plant.

If You're Afraid Of Nuclear War You're Not Supporting Ukraine Enough Is Zelensky's Latest Message
The follow up to Elon Musk's refusal to open his Starlink satellite network for the benefit of Ukrainian military leaders as they fantasise about attacking Crimea and driving out the Russian occupying force this past week showcases how completely unhinged and dangerous the Ukrainian government's desire to escalate the war has become.

Will Commodities Be The New Reserve Currency As The Death Knell Of The Dollar Sounds?
Many respected economists and market analysts who favour the free markets approach concur that we are heading towards a new economic reality that will see the collapse of the US$ as the default reserve currency, to be replaced not by any other fiat currency such as the Euro or the Renminbi, but by a system in which  commodities are the primary denominator of value. Should this turn out to be the case we can expect an acceleration of the shift in geopolitical power from west to East.

We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis
Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.

Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter
While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...

More Nations backing Away From The US$
Russia Just Sent out a Message NATO Should Better Listen To
The key paragraph from the latest official Russian naval doctrine is that Putin and his military advisers have sent a clear message that NATO encroachment is unacceptable. To be honest, there is nothing earth shattering in this, The Daily Stirrer and many other alternative media news and analysis sites have been warning for about two years that Obama's foreign policy was making conflict inevitable.
De - dollarization Moves Ahead - Once Again We Told You So,
What Putin Wants
China Warns U.S. to Stop Its Ukrainian Proxy War Against Russia
The World Rejects USA Attempt To Manipulate Venezuela
India's Ruling BJP Party Crushed In Regional Poll
Another Conspiracy Theory Becomes Fact: Oil Collapse Is All About Obama's Proxy War With Russia.
G77 Nations vow to destroy petrodollar and America’s New World Order
American Dollar Dumped
Iran's Oil and the US Dollar
Money From Rock Better Than Money From Air
Currency Wars

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

IRGC States Not One Drop Of Oil Will Pass Through The Strait Of Hormuz As Full Scale Conflict Resumes

 

Amid amid large scale exchanges of missile and drone fire across The PersianGulf  today between Iranian and US forces, we can be sure that the Trump-Netayahu on-off-on war with Iran is on again. The battle for Hormuz has ramped up after the United States has undertaken three consecutive nights of major bombing raids against Iranian targets.

 The IRGC says they targeted enemy weapons and parts storages in Bahrain and Kuwait. This after the US appeared to attack some critical Iranian infrastructure on coastal islands.

 Later the IRGC has issued a fresh statement via state media on Tuesday, saying that "as long as the US evil stays in the middle east, not a drop of oil and gas will be exported from the region." It said further, per the press release that US aggression will have no result other than delaying the opening of the Strait of Hormuz.

All the while President Trump is said to be "very serious" about his plan to impose a 20% toll on cargo transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, a Semafor report says, citing a White House official who says the president has desired such a plan for months. Both warring sides are insisting that it is their side alone which will be 'guardian' over the strait. 

ABC is meanwhile reporting during the mid-afternoon (US time) that American airstrikes on Iran have been underway for the last couple of course. And yet still, Iran's IRIB has said that the Islamic Republic "must control the entire Hormuz Strait in wartime".

That oil is the main weapon of Iran and the primary fear of USA is obvious. They thought the MOU would allow free access to every ship in both directions through The Strait Of Hormuz. Well, this is what they get for thinking they can out - bluff the Iranians. Why would Iran allow any unfriendly ships to pass when the US military started violating the clauses before, during and after the signing?? They knew this and got their oil out as fast as they could and used the American threats to drag their feet on the other vessels.
 
China reimporting is most likely refilling their reserves. An article a few weeks back indicated China wasn’t interested in Iranian oil and all the vessels headed there will be disappointed. Well, it was a propaganda piece. They were parking there because they knew the MOU was just buying time. Time Iran has used wisely, time the US squandered because it and its friends were not able to refill their reserves. 

In total some 7 m bpd exited the Gulf region through new outlets. The releases from reserves and the lifting of sanctions contributed to additional supplies of some 3-5 m bpd. The reduction of Chinese import demand amounted to some 5 m bpd.

Due to all the above measures the global supply of about 100 m bpd only shrank to about 92-95 m bpd. Global demand, especially due to the Chinese measures, dropped to a nearly equal balance. The amount that was still missing in this rough calculation was drawn from reserves within the distribution and transport levels.

After all measures were in place demand and supply were balanced again and oil prices came down to a normal level of some $70+/bl.

When U.S. President Donald Trump decided to reignite the conflict he might have thought that the oil problem he had feared had gone away. He was wrong.

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Saturday, July 11, 2026

Volkswagen Crisis - German Car Giant To Drastically Reduce Model Range As Germany's Industrial Decline Continues

 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/07/10/volkswagen-halves-model-range/

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Credit: Jens SCHLÃ TER / AFP Getty Images via Daily Telegraph

Volkswagen (VW), not long ago the word's biggest automobile maker, but now second to Toyota, in danger of being overhauled by Hyundai and with the spectre of China's Geeley and BYD looming ever larger in the rear view mirror, having failed to agree with unions  a plan to cut 100,000 jobs, are now looking for ways to axe half of its two model range as part of a cost-cutting drive.

The German car giant, which has been battling a downturn in sales performance exacerbated by high energy and labour costs, supply line problems and punitive taxes imposed by the German government and the EU,, announced the measure after the board's last ditch effort failed to agree on job cuts of up to 100,000 roles in a crunch meeting with union representatives.

VW said that halving the number of models it sold would allow it to focus on its best-selling and most profitable vehicles.

It did not say which brands would be affected or when the changes would be made, but the move raises the prospect of dozens of popular models being scrapped.

 Volkswagen and other EU car manufacturers are being hammered by competition from China where there are no net zero obstacles and exports are heavily subsidised. The EU's protectionist policy is supposed to cushion intra-EU car manufacture from this only it can't due to the risks of a trade war. So what is the point of the EU?

 Some may claim this Volkswagen crisis is capitalism in action, and while that may be true to some extent in Germany, we must always be aware that the western European nations (and a lesser extent in the USA,) due to state and EU interventions and policies like the enforced switch to EVs, net zero and high taxation to support extravagant welfare systems, market forces are distorted. The price of new cars have become prohibitively expensive mainly due to (in the UK anyway) the anti car Government piling more and more taxes on top plus the ludicrously expensive road fund tax (which doesn't go on roads) on new cars.I think it is only buyers of Company cars and the outrageous disability car purchase scam who can afford to buy a new car.

I can afford to buy a new car, but why would I when it loses 30% of its value once I take delivery? I’d rather pay 30% less. Most people don’t buy cars anyway, they pay a monthly fee to use them, like mobile phones, music, Sky, Netflix and the like

Short of new sactions across the board on Chinese cars, VW are going to have to eliminate most of their 'cheaper' cars, and hope that the expensive ones maintain some market share. I guess this is essentially what this new plan is.

Thank you Net Zero. The European car industry is finished, In 5 years time the Chinese will own VW, Stellantis, BMW, Renault and ... I can't think of any other European owned company except Mercedes but they will survive by retreating to the luxury market.

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Has Putin Has Pushed Europe Into Economic Depression, Hyperrinflation and Currency Collapse?
Though it was entirely predictable and indeed had been expected for some time, the news over the weekend that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which feeds gas from Russia to northern Europe via The Baltic route had been shut down completely by The Kremlin in retaliation for the continued financial and military support given by NATO and EU member states to Ukraine in the conflict with Russia. The European Commission, governing body of the EU, immediately put the community on something close to a war footing, ...
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Jingoistic Western Triumphalism Will Not End The War In Ukraine Or Cripple Putin, But It Is Crippling Western Nations
As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Russia steps up its economic war against the west and in particular The European Union, claims made recently by the idiotically 'woke' leaders of Europe's main economic and military powers that the West has a once-in-a–generation chance to severely weaken Russia’s capabilities, both militarily and geopolitically, look increasingly hollow. Putin's critics have cited 'Western unity' as one of the main reasons why Russia will be economically destroyed and politically humiliated when the Ukraine's military finally claim victory.

European Union Is Again Close To A Meltdown As Eurozone Economy Collapses
Once more we return to the political instability and economic fragility of the European Union as the conflict in Ukraine combined with loonytoons Climate Change mitigation policies, the failure of 'sustainables' to meet ever increasing demand for electricity, fod shortages and rampant price inflation put economic and social pressure on governments of member states ...

Debunked: The Great Renewable Green Delusion
The war in Ukraine has not caused the global energy crisis of early 2022 byt merely exacerbated it. Currently the nations currently in conflict with Russia over its incursion into Ukraine are those which are most dependent for their energy needs on Russian oil and gas. And now their loonytoons 'net zero' green energy policies have failed they are biting the hand that feeds them.

Putin, Macron To Hold Urgent Talks To Halt Military Escalation In Ukraine
Even though the leaders of Ukraine itself are talking down the threat of war with Russia over the breakaway region of Donbas, America and Britain are still beating the war drums and demonising Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Russia insists they have no plans to invade Ukraine and one western leader at least, France's Emmanuel Macron, seems to be listening to messages coming out of the East European trouble spot...

British Government Laundered Fake U.S. 'Intelligence' On Ukraine
The British government on Saturday accused Russia of organizing a plot to install a pro-Moscow government in Ukraine, as the Kremlin masses troops near the Ukrainian border. The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office gave relatively little information about the intelligence unveiled Saturday other than to say that the Russian government was considering trying to make a Russia-leaning former member of Ukraine’s parliament, Yevhen Murayev, the country’s new leader. Continue reading >>>

Do We Have A Winter Of Civil Disobedience Ahead?
As many people in Britain slap on the apres sun gloop in the wake of what passes for a heatwave in these cool cloudy climes, our inept politicians caught with their pants down by unusual weather as usual have heard that that winter is coming and are making plans for a coldwave. We are in the grip of an energy crisis at the height of summer. Last week, it was reported that the UK government is laying down plans for a “reasonable worst-case scenario” including blackouts for industry and even households. And this is as energy prices spiral out of control to new records every day.

Official Advice - Prepare For Blackouts This Winter

The UK government is putting plans together for days of organised blackouts this winter, in what they call a "reasonable worst-case scenario" for energy shortages, according to reports in manstream media. Naturally they are blaming this on the embargo on importing gas from Russia but in reality Britain has never imported any more than a small amout of its gas from Russia. The real reason politicians and energy company CEOs are panicking is entirely due to their obession with obtaining all our energy from intermittent sources like wind and sunshine ...

Is Russia Selling Its Oil To The World Through An Obscure Egyptian Port?
As this blog predicted when NATO and EU member states shot themselves in the foot by reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with sanctions that prevented Russia from selling oil, gas and vital raw materials to the countries that needed them most, the NATO and EU member states, the Russians have had no problems finding alternative customers for their gas and oil and no problem getting oil into the world's commodity markets through the back door.

"Our Country Is Facing The Biggest Crisis The Crisis We Ever Had": German Employers' Association Warns Over Russian Gas Cut
With the Nord Stream 1 pipeline closed for maintenance, with the possibility that President Putin will not allow it to reopen at the end of the scheduled 10 days downtime in retaliation for the EU's continued support or Ukraine in their conflict with Russia, Germany is facing an unprecedented crisis that could erase the prosperity Germans have grown accustomed to, warned Rainer Dulger, head of the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations.

Europe's biggest economy would suffer a 6.5pc contraction if Russian energy is suspended, experts warn 
Even though the sanctions already imposed on Russia in respondse to the invasion of Ukraine are hitting the nations that imposed then harder that their intended target, the EU is preparing to committ economic suicide in an orgy of virtue signalling ...

We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis
Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.

Boris and Biden Can't Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis
With typical arrogance and condescension towards the people who elected them Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and their respectiive presstitutes are trying to spin the energy crisis Europe and North America are currently facing as somehow being linked to the conflict in Ukraine and therfore blame is being attactched to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe such unmitigated bollocks? ...

Even If The War In Ukraine Ends, Sanctions Will Stay - So How Bad Will The Food Crisis Get?
Western leaders, desperate to show their own countries they were taking a firm stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, were quick to impose economic sanctions ... so quick in fact that they acted before they had though things through. While freezing Russia out of the global finance system they have exacerbated the wests energy crisis, while Russia's retaliatory ban on raw materials (fertiliser) exports will create extra problems on top of those we already had ...

Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter
While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anti - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...

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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Spain's Solar Power Boom Goes Bust and Busts The National Grid

 by Arthur Foxake, 9 July 2026

Spain’s solar boom is running into a harsh reality: too much sunshine has created an energy glut, crashing prices and spooking investors, writes Hans van Leeuwen in the Telegraph.The article lays bare the insane voodoo-economics underlying all this Net Zero/Green energy nonsense.

In Spain, solar panels make much more sense than in the northern latitudes of UK with our cloudy skies and loooooong winter nights. So much sense that they’re producing too much energy, causing the price electricity companies pay producers to drop drastically. What happens then? Sell the excess energy to someone else – the French, or us – lowering prices elsewhere? 

Nope, the grid and interconnectors can’t take the surplus energy, last year a sunny spell in summer overloaded transformers on the national distribution grid and knocked out electricity supply to homes and businesses over a large part of the country. Continue covering thousands of square miles of productive agricultural land with panels that produce electricity nobody wants and Store it? Nope: no-one bothered to think about storage technology (or rather the lack of it). Provide the energy to Ramon and Luz in the house down the road, at a zero price? Nope, not allowed: because the whole push is wrapped in a bonkers guaranteed-price straitjacket.

So, instead: switch off the solar plant.  Yes switch them off because the gas and nuclear power stations must be kept running in order to level the loading on the grid when supplies from intermittent sources suddenly fluctuate.  These fabulous solutions to pollution, supposedly providing cheap energy, have to be switched off to keep the price high. For years this blog has been saying Net Zero is a scam built on the Climate Catastrophe hoax.

It’s tempting to read this as “greedy investors gaming a  badly thought out system, traducing good intentions”; that is certainly our problem in Britain, particularly net zero crazy Scotland where energy producers are paid more for NOT producing electricity than they earn from current fed into the grid, and there may be some element of it in Spain.

But whether it’s the evil Capitalists putting up the money, or government doing it directly (and the generation/transmission complex is a textbook case of potential market failure), someone has to pay for the construction and maintenance of these expensive, brand-new solar plants and they are not cheap to build and maintain. Perhaps this prioritising theory over reality is why green power has failed so miserably.

It seems to me that a guaranteed future price is one of the  most counter productive ways of raising the money. As your friendly local free-market economist will tell you, it suppresses an important signal.

Some signal is getting through nevertheless, and investment in solar in Spain is drying up. What’s wrong with that? Well, it’s only wrong because Spain has to expand solar, according to Book of Net Zero 1:1 – even if the market signals (and the underlying realities they reflect) don’t make it worthwhile. Build more solar plants, and switch them (and the existing ones) off more often.

The logic of the Net Zero lobby is totally insane.

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Scientists says Nuclear Is The Way Forward For Clean Energy – Do Ursidae Defecate In Sylvan Landscapes?

 

Climate Scientists' Mathematical Models Of Reality Wrong Again…New Study Shows Jet Stream Strengthening, Not Weakening
recent research  by Samantha Hallam et al published in the journal Climate Dynamics looks at the seasonal variations over decades in Northern Hemisphere jet stream latitude and speed over land for the period 1871–2011. The authors report that they found no evidence of weakening of the sort climate alarmists have been warning about for the past three decades.

Shock for The Green Blob - Rewilding is to blame for Mediterranean forest fires
Or at least, to be acccurate, rewilding is partially to blame for Mediterranean forest fires. Which is darkly amusing as that man most insistent upon rewilding, George Monbiot, is trying to tell us that it’s all about climate change.

Official Advice - Prepare For Blackouts This Winter
The UK government is putting plans together for days of organised blackouts this winter, in what they call a "reasonable worst-case scenario" for energy shortages, according to reports in manstream media. Naturally they are blaming this on the embargo on importing gas from Russia but in reality Britain has never imported any more than a small amout of its gas from Russia. The real reason politicians and energy company CEOs are panicking is entirely due to their obession with obtaining all our energy from intermittent sources like wind and sunshine ...

UK Households Are Paying Wind Turbine Owners To Not Generate Electricity
On another near windless day here in the United Kingdom, Boggart Blog came across a very interesting piece if news. According to figures published by the business and management consultancy LCP, british taxpayers have been paying operators of wind turbines farms for the time their windmills were NOT generating electricity increased to record levels last year ...

Net Zero Is A Dangerous Fantasy, But Scientists Believe In Fairies It Seems
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New UN Report on Climate Change – Nothing New, Nothing True
The latest United Nations (“UN”) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) report, published this week, once again, in scaremongering tone and the language of the panic stricken, claims that the planet is in peril (we are facing climate disaster, the clock is at one minute to midnight, we must take urgent action to destroy civilisation if we are to save the planet, the usual over - dramatised guff designed to spread fear and panic,) basically the same claim as they have been making at least twice a month for the past 20 years.

We need energy security – not Net Zero
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.

Net Zero Gone With The Wind - Boris Johnson Plans Seven New Nuclear Plants And Shelves Wind Expansion
Reports in mainstream media suggest Boris Johnson has done a U turn on his recently announced massive expansion of wind powered generating capacity. Sources in Westminster claim Boris has shelved his masterplan for a giant, floating wind farm in The North Sea and the government will reconsider plans to double or even treble the number of wind turbines in the countryside and approve plans for up to seven new nuclear reactors instead.

Climate Change Research Paper Censored by The British Hydrological Society For Telling The Truth
The Daily Sceptic today published an article by retired research scientist James Dent, whose specialist field was hydrology and meteorology. Mr. Dent was involved in research projects aiemd at understanding the factors influencing climate, and their effects on environments, [ ... ] he was the World Meteorology Organisation Chief Technical Advisor to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre in Bangladesh, a low lying nation especially prone to flooding ....

Freak Weather Around The World Begs Questions
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The True Cost Of The Green Energy Boom Is Now Being Realized
For four decades we have been fed a constant stream of propaganda assuring us that green energy was the only way forward if we wanted to secure supplies of the energy essential to a modern society while preventing the environmental catastrophes that would be the inevitable consequence of climate change caused by the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emitted by human industrial, commercial and social activity. ... Continue reading >>>

Electricity cuts and power crisis predicted for Britain’s New Year Holiday
Shapps carefully omits to mention that the government’s only contingency plan for providing the power needed to meet peaks of demand (a sudden cold snap for example) is to spark up the thousands of diesel generators the earth loving politicians have concealed in goods containers on compounds sited around the country. Yes you read that right, diesel generators ...

Now Even ‘Hockey Stick’ Mann Admits The ‘Pause’ In Global Warming Is Real
“It has been claimed that the early-2000s global warming slowdown or hiatus, characterized by a reduced rate of global surface warming, has been overstated, lacks sound scientific basis, or is unsupported by observations. The evidence presented here contradicts these claims,” the paper in Nature Climate Change says.

German Scientist Confims Climate Change Ia A Politically Motivated Scam
Even as the inbred idiot Prince Charles was babbling to a hand picked audience about the skid marks in his underpants being caused by Climate Change, a somewhat more scientifically literate person, Dr. Friedrich Karl Ewert, a retired geologist and data computation expert, has confirmed what those of us dubbed 'climate deniers' have been telling you for years ...

It Looks As If Carbon Credits Scam Has INCREASED CO2 Emissions
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