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By Jo Nova
The dam has broken
Trump has only been President for a week, and already policies on the far side of the world are shifting. Just like that, the European Union has realized they might have too many green regulations.
It’s only a “leaked draft” of a five year economic plan — but the favored hyperbolic term du jour “unprecedented” now applies to deregulation, not climate change: ““This Commission will deliver an unprecedented simplification effort…”. And apparently, next months unprecedented effort is just the first round of simplifications.
The draft document says they need to adapt to “new realities” — like possibly that the US economy is about to unshackle itself from the Net Zero ball-and-chain-fantasy and eclipse the EU.
EU’s new economic vision is speaking to Green Deal critics
A draft document shows Brussels putting deregulation before decarbonization.
Zia Weise, Politico
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s new economic “compass” has a north star the burgeoning movement to revoke stringent green rules will love.
A leaked draft of the European Commission’s competitiveness compass — an economic doctrine to guide the EU executive’s work for the coming five years — […]
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By Jo Nova
Skeptics have been waiting for this for years
On day one Donald Trump has pulled out of the Paris Agreement. He’s abandoned the WHO, rescinded 78 executive orders made by Joe Biden, and freed 1,500 political prisoners who came to the Capitol to protest 4 years ago. He declared a National Energy Emergency and removed the EV sales target (the 50 percent zero-emission new vehicle sales by the end of the decade). He has vowed to disassemble the vast Inflation Reduction Act which was a monster Green Climate Fund.
100,000 pointless climate grifter careers have just been extinguished.
For four long tortuous years he was treated like a criminal, derided and mocked, and even shot. He must surely have been planning this day in intricate detail. If it bugged him, he put it on the list, even to the point of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and reversing Denali back to Mount McKinley.
There are already reports of the State of Florida issuing notices about a storm in the Gulf of America.
An Overview Of Trump’s Day One Executive Actions
ZeroHedge
“The […]
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By Jo Nova
Let the Swamp Drain…
For all its flaws, the US is still the largest military force on the planet and the world’s largest economy. If Trump chooses to use that power, and he appears to want to, the draining will be global. The only question is “how much”?
The Pre-inauguration Victory Rally
This is America’s vibe starting tomorrow… and I’m here for it. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/sTjQZB5pHy
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 20, 2025
Missed another bullet
Let’s not forget how close it was. As truly awful as the Kamala word-salad was, she still allegedly got 71 million votes compared to Trump’s 75 million. And if a mere 30,000 voters in Wisconsin, 80,000 in Michigan, and 120,000 in Pennsylvania had voted differently or been ballot harvested more efficiently, or were electronically hacked more competently, Kamala would have won. (270 Electoral college votes to 268).
The fate of the nation of 147 million voters (and the West) depended on just 230,000 choices or 0.16%.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
If the Blob had picked even a slightly less incompetent candidate, one without full blown dementia, or one able to string a whole coherent sentence together, then […]
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By Jo Nova
Ponder the remarkable physics
SpaceX just launched Starship Flight Test 7. As Elon Musk says about the booster section: “Atmospheric reentry speed is more than twice as fast as a bullet from an assault rifle and this is the largest flying object ever made“. Yet they still manage a perfect catch. The top speed on the return of the booster was 4,135 km/h. It went to space and back in just 7 minutes, reaching 90 km up.
The unmanned test rocket though, wasn’t so lucky, as SpaceX described it, suffering a ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent’.
The launch itself is a spectacle of raw power. As the rocket lifts off, it is so powerful it appears to create the weather around it almost, tearing through the atmosphere. Elon explains: “You can see the much higher propellant mass fraction of the new ship design by the percentage of rocket that is frosty.”
One commenter said SpaceX will change the way we fly. Elon said “Yes”.
Imagine being able to fly anywhere in the world in under an hour…
SpaceX Earth to Earth Transport will enable:
LOS ANGELES TO NEW YORK 5 hours, […]
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By Jo Nova
A “Far Left Politician” is practically invisible, and usually harmless. But a Far Right politician is dangerous.
(To the people who use namecalling to silence opponents).
💯 pic.twitter.com/0kSpy65HjK
— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) January 8, 2025
To be called “Far Right” implies someone is a horrible person, and you should probably hiss at them if they get too close. But on the prime time news, even bureaucrats pushing for One World Government, or slave owning dictators like President Xi are rarely introduced as “the Far Left President Xi”. That would give the game away, wouldn’t it? There would be constant reminders of the dangers of going “too far left”.
In its purest form the political right just want individual rights and smaller government, yet the “definition” of far right keeps shape-shifting to become somehow horribly authoritarian, “like Hitler”, of course, (the Socialist). Who benefits from this absurd definition? — Big Leftist collectivists, of course.
We the people cannot even have a conversation with easily recognizable words. The word fog is not an accident.
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By Jo Nova
Savor the moment. Donald Trump says he wants no wind farms built during his Presidency, and before we can even crack the champagne , the AfD in Germany say if they are elected, they don’t just want to stop people building new wind plants, they want to tear some of the old ones down.
That’s what we like to see, some competition… Who can get to Not Zero the fastest?
Trump Says He Wants No Wind Farms Built During Presidency
By Bloomberg
Bloomberg) — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would seek to have a policy of having no wind farms constructed during his second term, threatening billions of dollars in planned wind projects.
“We are going to have a policy where no windmills are being built,” Trump said during a lengthy tirade against wind power during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Trump, who has vowed a first day executive order targeting wind farms, has long made no secret his disdain for the energy source. But his remarks Tuesday represented the sharpest threat yet from the incoming president.
German Far-Right threatens To Tear Down […]
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