Utopia, you are standing in it!

The Russian demand for reparations had been accepted in principle at Yalta. The special commission set up to examine the subject failed to reach agreement. At Potsdam, Stalin pressed constantly for acceptance of a figure for reparations. The Allies refused to be committed. They were incensed by reports that the Russians were already removing from occupied territories machinery and other property which were not accepted as booty of war. Various practical difficulties forced the Western Allies to abandon their policy of treating the German economy as a whole. New U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes finally proposed that each power should satisfy its reparations claims from its own zone. Some 40 percent of the value of German industrial equipment deemed unnecessary for a peace economy was in the Soviet zone. Byrnes proposed further that 10 percent of such industrial equipment in the western zones should be given to Soviet Russia…

The Maori Party is in danger of losing any respect they might have otherwise enjoyed. They claim to speak for Maoridom so let’s first turn the spotlight on that. The reality is they polled just 1.17% in the Party vote (down 0.01% from that three years previously) and won two seats. They can only claim to speak for themselves and indeed, all the other four parties represented in the house have as many MPs of Maori descent as they do (and Labour and the Greens more). The Maori Party represents the essentially disaffected rump of Maoridom …. nothing less and certainly nothing more.

I guess I can put up with them defying dress standards and wearing silly hats in the House although one might have expected the Speaker to take a less charitable view of that having said that he expects Members to obey the rules requiring MPs to conform…

Germany’s landscape has been carpeted with more than 30,000 gigantic industrial wind turbines: the result is a dystopian nightmare, reminiscent of HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Except that the battle is being waged in towns and villages and most visibly in the German walds – with whole forests being clear-felled to make way for these things, rendering the landscape a hideous visual cacophony.

The little more on what your wind powered future might look like, here’s Pierre Gosselin.

Germany’s Enviro-Dystopia: Wind Parks Devastating Rural Regions At Catastrophic Proportions
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
1 December 2020

Germany’s vision of a clean, environmentally friendly energy supply system, all to be discreetly nestled in an idyllic landscape, is in reality morphing into an environmental dystopia of catastrophic proportions.

German wind energy protest group Vernunftkraft.de posted a Youtube video showing how out of control wind energy has gotten in some regions…

During the middle of last month, Great Britain’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced he would soon submit a ban on fossil fuel cars in the country that will full take effect in 2040. Appearing on Ian Collins’ TalkRadio show in Great Britain, Global Warning Policy Foundation‘s Head of Policy, Harry Wilkinson, debates Donnachadh McCarthy, a journalist from The Independent on this issue. This is why environmentalists hate to or will not debate, because their ideas are nonsense and this exchange proves it.

On Saturday, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested and charged two women in connection with a terrorist plot to sabotage railroad tracks in order to cause a train derailment. According to The New York Times, Ellen Brennan Reiche, 27, and Samantha Frances Brooks, 23, stand accused of placing a shunt on a railroad track in Bellingham, Washington.

In addition to previously working as a deputy field organizer for the Washington State Democratic Party, Reiche is a radical feminist and environmentalist who jointly founded the Bellingham Lesbian Collective. Both ladies also co-hosted the lesbian-oriented podcast The L-Word.

The Times also states that an anarchist website stated the purpose of the attacks is to impede an oil pipeline. In its press release, however, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said that a shunt can interfere with a train’s electrical signal and cause it to brake abruptly or interrupt its safety…

This followed an earlier incident last month at Puketona, just 10k from Paihia, where a police officer was shot at from close range. The two men involved are still on the run.

The incident in Paihia yesterday where a couple attempted to force a man to withdraw money from his ASB account, foiled when the bank staff triggered a silent alarm, which saw the woman arrested and the man fighting for his life after he crashed the car he was driving shows, yet again, just how stupid and woke the gun legislation passed as a knee jerk reaction to the Christchurch shootings is. It is reported that the man, already on bail, has close ties to the Tribesman Motorcycle gang. Two loaded firearms were found in the crashed car.

This crap legislation took away guns from law abiding citizens while the criminal underclass cocked their collective snoots. They are never…

Climate alarmists continue to berate us that the world is doomed and the only ‘solution’ offered is channelling $trillions more in subsidies to intermittent wind and solar. Their calls for ‘immediate action’ really means more of the same: more subsidies for more windmills and more solar panels; which really means the end of reliable and affordable electricity.

Whatever your views on climate change (the apparently existential threat formerly known as ‘global warming’), the idea that trying to run modern, civil societies on sunshine and breezes might somehow prevent it is, of course, a complete nonsense.

One environmentalist who called it out, loud and early, was Michael Shellenberger. As a long-time advocate for reliable, affordable and safe nuclear energy, and critic of intermittent renewables – calling wind and solar worse than useless – Michael combines common sense, logic and reason, in an era when those attributes have become scarce commodities.

Plenty will turn up for the Christening …

A moment’s employment of our critical faculties reveals just why wind and solar will never be meaningful power sources. STT is dedicated to explaining why. But, for the uninitiated, we’ll simply mention sunset and calm weather as the most obvious starting points.

Explaining how readily the naïve and gullible have been taken in by the rent seekers that sit behind and profit from the so-called wind and solar ‘industries’ takes a little more intellectual horsepower, however.

You’d be hard pressed to find a group of people turning up to venerate the moment when a reliable power source – like a gas turbine or coal-fired power plant – is launched into operation. So, why is it that retired school teachers and Uni academics will drive miles out of their way to genuflect in the middle of a field carpeted with these things, with…

As far back as November 1943 the Americans had planned a massive new attack on the German aircraft industry by both the Eighth and Fifteenth air forces. The RAF agreed to join by launching area attacks on the cities in which the aircraft plants were located. The plan was expected to be costly and needed a week of clear weather over Germany, as well as reasonable weather over England and Italy. But the weather over Germany remained miserable for almost all of the first seven weeks of 1944. Until late February the Eighth was able to carry out just two visual missions over Germany, and one of these was partly abortive and the other a lucky accident. The Fifteenth Air Force was tied down, hitting nearby targets in support of the Anzio beachhead, which was in grave danger from a German counteroffensive.

The Eighth continued radar bombing. Some radar missions…