German Chancellor admits shutting nuclear plants was a “serious strategic mistake” — will rebuild nuclear. Media quiet.

German Chancellor admits shutting nuclear plants was a “serious strategic mistake” — will rebuild nuclear. Media quiet. By Joanne Nova.

Germany shut down its last three reactors in April 2023, but three years later, they’ve realized it was a terrible mistake and want to rebuild them or put small modular reactors “likely on the same sites”.

After 66 years of operating nuclear power without any major accidents, the irony was that Germany shut down its nuclear industry mostly because other countries had accidents. But now they admit they need more electricity.

This would be one of the biggest backdowns in the fake renewables “transition”. Germany is the third largest economy in the world, and Chancellor Merz said this openly at a business conference a few days ago, but the mass media have said nothing. …

Germany once had 19 nuclear power plants, which provided more than a quarter of its electricity, but now they are bleeding industrial power, losing solar, wind power, EVs and now AI before it has barely started. …

“Merz has dropped German opposition to nuclear energy in EU law, opening the door for German companies to invest in French small modular reactor projects.”

 

 

Two years ago a study showed that if Germany just kept nuclear power, it could have saved $600b and cut emissions by 73%. If the Greens cared about emissions they would have been begging Germany to keep nuclear power. But it was never about “the science” was it?

German leaders and their strategic mistakes.

More Amelia

More Amelia.

 

 

Amelia in America:

 

Amelia’s cousin in Canada:


Earlier Amelia.

 

Meanwhile, in every school in London, Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester, Leicester, Luton and Bolton:

Leftist Insurrection in Minnesota

Leftist Insurrection in Minnesota. By Victoria Taft at PJ Media.

Can you call it an “insurrection” yet?

An “All Employee Email” was sent to “All Exchange Users” on Friday before the Martin Luther King holiday weekend, directing employees on how they could continue to stymie federal immigration agents working in the city.

The tipster who sent the email to Alpha News reporter Liz Collin said, “They are working with protesters within the city to help them track ICE operations [and this] seems like they are complicit in helping impede ICE agents.”  …

The sender issued a bullet-pointed list of how the city was fighting the federal government over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents, as well as continued pointers on how to impede them. For the record, impeding federal agents is a federal offense punishable by prison time.

Right Angle News Network:

Minneapolis police have completely turned over the city to leftists, as they are now forming groups to hunt down anyone who appears to support ICE, with this man being saved by the feds just moments before being beaten for simply wearing camo.

 

Andy Ngo:

One of the locations anti-Islam activist Jake Lang attempted to take refuge in while being pursued by a far-left violent mob was the Hotel Indigo in downtown. He was pursued inside, chased out, and then attacked some more.

 

 

Jim Ferguson:

This was an attempted murder. After being beaten unconscious by a Democrat-aligned mob, Jake Lang was dragged back into the crowd — and STABBED. ..

They didn’t stop when he was down. They didn’t walk away. They tried to kill him.

This is what happens when politicians demonize law enforcement, excuse mob violence, and label Americans as “the enemy” for their beliefs.

This wasn’t a protest. This wasn’t chaos. This was targeted political violence. And the silence from Democrat leaders is deafening.

 

President Trump warned what would happen when mobs are empowered and the rule of law is abandoned. We are watching the consequences unfold in real time.

If the state will not protect its citizens, the federal government must. Because when Americans are hunted in the streets for who they support — that is no longer politics. That is domestic terror.

 

Triumphant leftie:

Woman reveals that a quick response group she’s in was able impede and obstruct an ICE operation that ended in the detainee being let loose:

“When we got the call for this ICE sighting, within minutes, we had 20 to 30 observers on foot and in vehicle, myself included.

“We showed up and we overwhelmed these ICE agents so much that they let this detainee go.”

“They are scaring us, but we are scaring them right back. We have to keep going. It is working.”

 

 

Sólionath:

Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to suppress peaceful protest, and desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas, at gunpoint. Not the National Guard, but the U.S.’s plain old Regular Army. Equipped with live rounds. For 1/1,000th of what leftists are currently doing in Minneapolis.

101st Airborne Division, fixed bayonets.

Didn’t see anything about this on the Australian ABC News, who are so quick to report anything that might reflect badly on Trump or the right.

Leftists led by Don Lemon invade a church service in Minnesota, will be charged under the Ku Klux Klan Act

Leftists led by Don Lemon invade a church service in Minnesota, will be charged under the Ku Klux Klan Act. By John Hinderaker at Powerline.

In Minnesota, the government-sponsored insurrection continues, and events are spinning out of control. This morning, left-wingers invaded a Baptist church and disrupted a service that was in progress, committing, at a minimum, criminal trespass.

Apparently one of the pastors is a member of ICE.

 

 

Former CNN host Don Lemon participated in the outrage. Lemon, ill-informed even by CNN standards, tells the Baptist minister that the First Amendment gives left-wingers the right to disrupt his church service. …

If these miscreants spent just a week in the county jail, such criminal acts would immediately stop. So far, sadly, that hasn’t happened.

Imagine storming a church mid worship and thinking you are the good guys.

People often wonder how liberals can engage in outrageous conduct like invading a church during a worship service, and yet somehow believe they are on the side of virtue. That is a puzzle, but the answer may be different: they may be Satanic, fully aware that they are doing evil, and cloaking their deeds with insincere justifications that they know to be false.

Eric Daugherty:

Trump DOJ to bring charges under the Ku Klux Klan Act or the Face Act after Don Lemon and leftists stormed a Minneapolis church, harassing worshippers …

ASSISTANT AG DHILLON: “The Klan Act is a law that makes it illegal to terrorize citizens, to violate their civil rights, to get together and conspire to violate the civil rights.”

“Whenever anyone conspires to violate the protected civil rights of American citizens, the Klan Act can be used to bring a conspiracy charge.” ,,,

“”We’re going to add additional charges and punish that more and make it from a misdemeanor under the FACE Act to a felony under the Klan Act.”

 

Australian Defender

Australian Defender. See Amelia here, to the end of the video.

Liberal MP Andrew Hastie (ex-SAS commander):

We now have people living in Australia who do not share our values and despise our way of life, and they will use violence to make the point. Militant Islam is a cancer that must be cut from our communities, before it kills more of us.” — 

Commenters:

Diversity is our strength… said no one at the Bondi Hanukkah stabbing memorial. …

Switch to One Nation. Liberals ain’t goin’ nowhere. They’re the same team as Labor.

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Adelaide Writers Week: Australian tolerance defeated by the Woke-Islam Alliance

Adelaide Writers Week: Australian tolerance defeated by the Woke-Islam Alliance. By Henry Ergas in The Australian.

In demanding a platform, Randa Abdel-Fattah seeks to convert into a right what is merely a privilege: a privilege whose sole condition is the mutual respect she has repeatedly rejected.

 

 

Australian tolerance:

[What underpins Australia’s democratic order is] the belief that our shared civic framework is sufficiently robust to contain — even discipline — the passions that inevitably mark a free society.

Central to that order is an expectation of self-restraint, ensuring that we treat one another with mutual respect so disagreements do not degenerate into brawls or dislikes into outright hatreds. Equally taken for granted is the conviction that, however searing our differences, they do not cleave the country into warring camps in which one side claims a licence to intimidate, silence, harass or even assault the other.

Yet none of these traits is a gift of nature. They are instead the hard-earned product of our history, which from the outset forced previously hostile groups of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish settlers to learn how to live together. By the 1850s, as self-government was being established and mass-suffrage democracy was sweeping through, a “democracy of manners” had begun to emerge — one in which settlers of widely differing origins were expected to treat one another with informal friendliness at best and laconic toleration at worst.

It would be absurd to claim that this standard was always met: no society ever has or will. But there was a substantial consensus about the standard itself, repeatedly affirmed by prominent churchmen, leading writers and the press. Indeed, for authoritative voices to denounce the norm as such would have been virtually unthinkable.

Instead, the period’s intellectual elites actively promoted civic education that inculcated habits of mutual respect and elevated them into a civic duty. … Westminster rules and procedures proliferated through handbooks circulated across the colonies and were assiduously applied in the governance of the innumerable voluntary bodies that peppered the social fabric: friendly societies, mutual-improvement and progress associations, bowls clubs, debating and chess clubs, Mechanics’ Institutes, as well as the committees formed to run libraries, community halls, hospitals, schools and charitable institutions.

It was in these institutions, writes historian John Hirst, that Australians “learned how to be good citizens: to listen to opposing arguments, to respect the rulings of the chairman and to accept that voting decided issues”. A proceduralist ethos of mutual respect — so widely adopted as to “become second nature” — was thereby firmly embedded as a shared ideal in the nation’s democratic culture.

That culture has now been dramatically eroded, if not altogether shredded.

Woke is a very young culture, which has learned to dominate by bullying and cancelling. It is postmodern, rejecting the very notion of truth and embracing only power.

Islam is a very strong culture, basically unchanged for 14 centuries. It brooks no opposition, no compromise.

Woke and Islam share a complete disrespect for others, a massive intolerance.

“Most obviously, an Islamist rhetoric of religiously inspired hatred has been allowed to flourish, creating the conditions for escalating acts of intimidation and violence.”

This rhetoric has been amplified by elements of the left that, animated by a deep hostility to the West, have lent their muscle to efforts to silence voices they detest. And far from standing firmly against such outrages, many of today’s self-proclaimed “creatives” — ranging from artists to academics –have excused them while openly defending their perpetrators.

We were unable to identify, for example, even a single instance in which Sarah Ferguson or Laura Tingle — both [woke] salaried employees of the ABC — publicly opposed any one of the 40 or so “cancellations” of Jewish artists, speakers and academics that have occurred since October 7, 2023. Their incandescent indignation at the decision to rescind Randa Abdel-Fattah’s invitation to Writers Week is therefore not merely another expression of the ABC’s indifference to its obligation to be, and to be seen to be, politically neutral. Like the statements issued by many of the other protesters, it is manifestly hypocritical. …

Randa Abdel-Fattah:

It is, after all, indisputable that Abdel-Fattah — who scarcely pretends to be a disciple of John Stuart Mill — is no defender of free speech.

Rather, she claims freedom for herself while denying it to others. Worse still, she endorses a form of vigilante politics in which organised mobs intimidate or suppress the speech of real or alleged Zionists, whom she refuses to treat as fellow Australians.

As Abdel-Fattah frankly put it, “If you are a Zionist, you have no claim or right to cultural safety. And it is my duty as somebody who fights all forms of oppression and violence to deny you a safe space to espouse your Zionist racist ideology.” …

In demanding a platform, Abdel-Fattah seeks to convert into a right what is merely a privilege: a privilege whose sole condition is the mutual respect she has repeatedly rejected. …

How can a liberal society deal with the resolutely intolerant?

The conventional answer — central to what might be called the liberalism of hope — is simple: let them speak in a contest of views and the truth will prevail. But that answer founders on two well-known objections.

[First,] it mistakenly assumes speech can be cleanly severed from action. But speech, they argued, need not even cross the formal line into incitement to gravely threaten the civic peace. …

[Second,] the liberalism of hope not only assumes that speech will be deliberative — aimed at exposing truth rather than at preparing the ground for mayhem — but also that, once the contest of views has run its course, the losers will politely accept the verdict and lay down their arms, perhaps content to await a more favourable outcome next time.

But the confrontation with jihadi preachers and apologists for Hamas is not a debating society. Whatever the outcome of any notional “clash of views”, they will continue — carefully treading the thin line between legality and illegality — along the path that has already helped supply the mood music for mass murder.

Those are hard facts for a democratic society to confront. They cut directly against our commitment to the widest possible freedom of expression, compelling the liberalism of hope to reckon with the liberalism of fear: the fear that the social compact earlier generations forged and that we were privileged to inherit will unravel under pressure from groups that openly despise it.

How do we deal with the 3% of the electorate — who mostly vote Labor — whose holy book advocates killing Jews and Christians (“first comes Saturday, then comes Sunday”)?

How do we deal with the 15% of the electorate — who mostly vote Labor — whose self esteem and social standing rests on being morally superior to most people, by virtue of believing special things that most people don’t believe? (Thus, they are in the 20 in nearly every 20-80 issue, and they fall for some pretty crazy fads.)

Young women moved radically left in the last two decades; young men stayed the same

Young women moved radically left in the last two decades; young men stayed the same. By Zarathustra. US data.

Women have moved *radically* leftward, at a scale & speed with no modern precedent, while men have, on the whole, remained largely steady & unchanged.

 

 

Another leftist lie bites the dust (by Wanye):

What we’ve been told about radicalization for the last 10 years is exactly the opposite of what’s happened in reality.

We’ve been told that men are increasingly radicalized to the right and that this is a bad thing.

What’s actually happened is that women have increasingly radicalized to the left. This doesn’t really get talked about much, but to the extent that it does, it will in every single case be framed as a good thing. …

If I look at my Facebook feed, for example, you see some political stuff from men, but what really stands out is the number of women who have made left-wing politics a primary feature of their daily lives.

Commenters:

Just observing and listening to young women is difficult. I have had guys in their 20s tell me young women are not somebody you would want to be with for life. …

No learning from past errors, no thinking about consequences, all that matters is I’m angry right now …

The deeper problem is that feminism has taught the sexes to hate each other. Feminism teaches women to hate men and by extension teaches men to hate women because feminism tells them that all women see them as oppressors and hate them.

Possibly related, also by Zarathustra:

56% of liberal women aged 18-29 have literally been diagnosed with a mental health disorder.

And that’s only the number officially diagnosed. The real number is obviously higher.

 

 

Good Pyre:

There are dark arts of discourse that the Progressive superstructure uses to radicalize women. It’s an unfortunate reality of the psychological literature that women are much easier to brainwash … Progressive causes rely on repetition for a reason.

Erik Dale:

Women’s strong evolutionary drive to conform, preserve harmony, and avoid conflict creates a built-in vulnerability for democracy. Whoever controls the cultural zeitgeist (media, education, institutions, celebrities, etc.) can shape which opinions feel “safe” and which feel dangerous, reliably herding young women leftward (in our age).

Helen Smith: “Why are white liberal women especially eager for battle?”

Because most of them have enjoyed the female privilege of being able to be aggressive, insulting and even violent towards men with no consequences. They think they can transfer this immunity into this arena and – as the deceased woman found out – it doesn’t work there.

Support for Australia Day on 26 January surges to over 75%

Support for Australia Day on 26 January surges to over 75%. By Daniel Wild from the Institute of Public Affairs.

The divisive debate about our national day is over. Support for Australia Day on 26 January has surged, yet again, with more than three-quarters of Australians backing it in, including 83 per cent of Australians aged 18-24. …

Australia is the greatest country on earth, and mainstream Australians are no longer afraid to say it, despite the threat of being cancelled by radical activists and the elites

 

Bill Maher Delivers a Brutal Message to the COVID “Experts” Who Got It Wrong

Bill Maher Delivers a Brutal Message to the COVID “Experts” Who Got It Wrong. By The Vigilant Fox.

“A lot of the dissenting opinions that were suppressed and ridiculed at the time have proven to be CORRECT

This includes, but is not limited to:

• COVID came from a lab
• Ivermectin worked
• Masks offered no benefit and were harmful
• Should have never kept kids out of school
• Natural immunity is better than vaccinated immunity
• Long COVID is often a symptom of long vax
• Hospitals murdered COVID patients
• COVID fatality rate and death count were highly inflated
• Unvaccinated were scapegoated for the failure of the shots
• Early treatment was suppressed to make way for a “vaccine”
• Risks of the jab were intentionally hidden from the public
• Vaccine mandates are wrong
• More shots = more risk of infection
• COVID shots are neither safe nor effective

Needs saying, says it well:

 

 

Anyone who isn’t keeping up with their covid shots (are we up to 10 yet?) is kind of admitting that the vaccine skeptics were right.

A lot of people were harmed by foolish decisions by those in power.

So, where is hauling these fools and charlatans to account? A (Royal) commission? An apology? An investigation into the 15% in excess deaths (all causes) since the vax? Why are the Western bureaucrats still hiding the stats?

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Congratulations on defeating Albanese the socialist on free speech

Congratulations on defeating Albanese the socialist on free speech. By Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

The [Albanese] government has binned the provisions of its proposed legislation that would have criminalised hate speech …

All those Australians who have stood against this censorious bill are to be commended. …

Leveraging off the Bondi tragedy — and using the justification of combatting antisemitism — the politically expedient Anthony Albanese sought to pass laws curtailing free speech that have been on his mind for a long time.

 

 

Since coming to power, we’ve seen the Albanese government’s socialist inclinations play out.

It’s a government that mistakes control for governing well.

A government that favours a state-directed economy over a free-market economy.

And a government that prefers having power over citizens — who are dependent on the state — to empowering citizens.

The desire to curtail and control speech is exactly what we have come to expect from this Prime Minister — a man who doesn’t believe that the government should serve the will of the people, but instead wants the people to serve the will of the government. …

For domestic political reasons, Anthony Albanese wants to ringfence Islam from any reasonable scrutiny. And he wants to shut down debate on key policy issues like mass immigration. …

Antisemitism:

In terms of combatting antisemitism — or any form of hate for that matter — the problem isn’t that existing laws are insufficient.

Rather, the problem is that existing laws haven’t been enforced.

And that’s due to a lack of moral clarity and political leadership from the Albanese government ever since the sordid scenes on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.

Consider all the antisemitic incidents that have plagued our nation since then. It’s scandalous that, despite so many crimes, there have been so few arrests and so few visas cancelled.

Anthony Albanese has failed to act. …

If Anthony Albanese is serious about combatting the root causes of antisemitism — which include radical Islamism –he would ensure that existing laws are readily enforced.

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Hello Amelia

Hello Amelia. By John Carter.

The UK Government’s bureaucracy thought it would be a great idea to fund a “game” designed to teach youngsters how to navigate the Internet, download memes, watch videos, form opinions, etc. “Right wing extremism” bad, agreeing with the globalists good. Ham-fisted to infinity. But they made one innocuous mistake:

The creators of Pathways decided that it would be a great idea to cast the awful bigot leading the protagonist step by step to his ideological doom in the form of a cute alt girl, thereby sending the message that embracing right-wing extremism will give you a shot at getting a manic pixie dream girl gf.

 

 

Meet Amelia, the cute alt girl.

 

 

Bovril-Gesellschaft’s yearning declaration of love for Amelia racked up 3.6 million views. He clearly wasn’t the only one to be captivated by the racist art ho.

In the last week, she has become the new anti-globalist meme, the “hate” symbol turning up everywhere. Amelia can be any young white girl with purple hair, a black choker, a beauty spot on her cheek (which is often forgotten), and pink and purple clothing:

 

 

The Amelia memes rapidly became political:

 

 

Many more pictures of Amelia at the link. John Carter is an excellent writer with lots of interesting things to say, so consider subscribing to him.

UPDATE: More Amelia.

Trump and Elon — divided over China

Trump and Elon — divided over China. By Michael Doran in The Free Press.

When Trump asks, “Who do I call?” the first answer is obvious: not Rupert Murdoch. The line is dead — killed the moment Trump hit News Corp with a $10 billion defamation suit in 2025. Even if Murdoch answered, the call would be pointless. The old kingmaker of American conservatism now presides over a shrinking archipelago — Fox, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post — that the New Right treats like a distant province.

But America Firsters live inside a sealed media world of their own: podcasts, YouTube and Rumble feeds, Telegram channels, Gab, and above all X, where attitudes harden long before they ever surface on Fox Primetime. Trump still takes his movement’s temperature by watching Hannity and Ingraham. But the real fights over the future of MAGA are happening in digital spaces that neither he nor Murdoch command. …

Trump spent five years trying to construct a counter-media empire: he launched Truth Social (which plateaued at under 10 million monthly actives), turned One America News Network and Newsmax into semiofficial house organs, handed press credentials to RSBN (Right Side Broadcasting Network) and Gateway Pundit, and elevated a rotating cast of loyal amplifiers — Steve Bannon from War Room, Dan Bongino in his radio heyday, Charlie Kirk before the assassination, even Candace Owens until she broke with him. He urged the base to migrate, floated the possibility of a “Trump TV” network that never materialized, and watched most of his followers drift right back to the big platforms. Nothing cohered.

The person who finally built a real, scalable information infrastructure for populism was not Trump, but Musk. By transforming X into the central nervous system of the movement — and propelling its loudest voices to unprecedented prominence — Musk succeeded where Trump’s own efforts had stalled. …

 

 

China, China, China:

But the intersection of Musk’s interests with Trump’s did not last long. The break that matters most is not over tax rates or H-1B visas. It is over China.

Trump’s second-term strategy rests on a single organizing principle: The United States must reorient its alliances, industrial capacity, and military posture to contain a rising China before Beijing overtakes it. Everything he is doing — tariffs, critical-mineral partnerships in Africa and Central Asia, equity stakes in chips and rare-earth supply chains — is designed to make that containment credible abroad and sustainable at home.

Musk is moving in the opposite direction. He has spent a decade cultivating a public posture of admiration toward Beijing. He praises its infrastructure as “100 times faster” than America’s, has called himself “pro-China” onstage in Shanghai, gushes over Chinese “positive energy,” and in late 2022 echoed the CCP line by suggesting Taiwan should become a “special administrative region.” … Musk’s robotics ambitions — Optimus and the broader humanoid push — depend on Chinese supply chains and manufacturing scale no other country can match on his timetable.

Their interests are fundamentally at odds:

The contradiction is structural. Trump’s MAGA is a nationalist restoration, aimed at reversing the offshoring that hollowed out the middle class and supercharged a hostile competitor.

Musk’s world is post-national and accelerationist: Mars colonies, brain-machine interfaces, artificial general intelligence. The fastest route to that future runs through frictionless global capital flows, open supply chains, and easy access to the world’s largest single market — China.

Trump wants to sever the economic dependence on Beijing. Musk wants to secure his companies inside it. One man is trying to rebuild the American heartland; the other is trying to escape the nation-state entirely. …

Musk’s new location-tagging features have already exposed a swath of “America First” accounts as foreign operators—Pakistanis, Indians, Nigerians — posing as domestic populists. It was a brief reminder that a trend line on X is not the voice of the American electorate. But the platform still remains wide open to manipulation. …

Friends, but:

Trump can call Elon — the line still works. But on the central strategic problem of his presidency, their vectors run in opposite directions: Trump toward a fortified nationalism capable of sustaining confrontation with Beijing, and Musk toward a globalized tech frontier that requires ongoing access to it

Musk does many things the US Government should do but is not longer capable of doing, e.g. Space X, Starlink, the Boring Company, maybe electric cars. He is the unofficial US Government, except he is also somewhat untied to the US, more global.