Mines, Minerals, And ‘Green Energy’: A Reality Check

Mines, Minerals, And ‘Green Energy’: A Reality Check

Summary As policymakers have shifted focus from pandemic challenges to economic recovery, infrastructure plans are once more being actively discussed, including those relating to energy. Green energy advocates are doubling down on pressure to continue, or even increase, the use of wind, solar power, and electric cars. Left out of the discussion is any serious…

A United State of Delusion

A United State of Delusion

Let’s face it: The Trump regime has from the first had a tenuous relationship with reality. A thousand jobs at a Midwestern air-conditioner plant don’t go to Mexico and the revival of American manufacturing is coming to a theater near you. The U.S. supports jihadist savages in Syria in the name of “freedom” and human…

America’s Multiple Infections

America’s Multiple Infections

On a per capita basis, Belgium has been the European country hardest hit by the coronavirus. With a population of 11.5 million, it registered over 66,000 infections and nearly 10,000 deaths. In fact, Belgium’s level of mortality of 860 deaths per million inhabitants is the highest in the world. Belgium suppressed the first wave of…

We’ve Spent a TRILLION Dollars on Statins to Lower Cholesterol, Yet Cardiovascular Deaths Have Gone UP

We’ve Spent a TRILLION Dollars on Statins to Lower Cholesterol, Yet Cardiovascular Deaths Have Gone UP

New research shows that the most widely prescribed type of drug in the history of medicine is a waste of money. One major study found that the more ‘bad’ cholesterol was lowered, the greater the risk of heart attacks and strokes. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, almost every other medical condition has been…

5 August 2019 Was A Defining Moment In Indo-Sino Relations

5 August 2019 Was A Defining Moment In Indo-Sino Relations

Most observers at the time regarded India’s de-facto annexation of Jammu & Kashmir on 5 August 2019 as being a defining moment for either India’s internal affairs or Indian-Pakistani relations, but in reality it was a defining one for Indo-Sino relations since it directly led to the recent Galwan Incident, the geopolitical reverberations of which…

China – Great Britain: the End of the “Golden Era”?

China – Great Britain: the End of the “Golden Era”?

The title of this article, to a certain extent answering its own question, reflects the author’s understanding of the current state of Sino-British relations which have been the focus of increased press coverage in both countries since the beginning of this year. In particular, the Chinese newspaper Global Times recently posed a similar (admittedly milder)…