Utopia, you are standing in it!

Europe’s ‘green’ energy transition has turned into high farce, with wind power output collapsing across the continent. The wind Gods are clearly angry. Britain and Germany have been in the doldrums for weeks; the gas needed to plug the gaps is in short supply, with the price of both gas and electricity, skyrocketing. The power market is nothing short of perfect pandemonium.

A while back, Boris Johnson – promoting his push for an all wind powered future – claimed that “it’s easy being green”. Now, at the mercy of the wind Gods, his grid managers are in a constant state of dread and panic, waiting for the moment when the entire UK power grid collapses into a full ‘system black’.

And Boris’ concept of “being green”, apparently includes firing up old coal-fired power plants, as the only reliable generation system, in town.

However, as The Australian’s Economics Editor, Judith Sloan…

It’s not an overstatement that our Universities are in trouble when it comes to the ability to exercise academic freedoms. If you put your name to a letter that argues that Maori indigenous knowledge “falls far short of what we can define as science”, you are forced to resign.

But it seems it’s quite acceptable to publish an article in a medical journal claiming that University meritocracy is a result of white supremacy.

Merit should be redefined and universities should take greater notice of indigenous self-determination and “a lived understanding of socioeconomic adversity”, academics from the University of Otago argue.

White supremacy, privilege and “meritocracy” were stubborn hurdles to a more just approach to student selection, public health specialist Prof Peter Crampton and colleagues contend in the New Zealand Medical Journal today.

The authors argued principles of meritocracy and the ideology of white supremacy had ensured barriers to…

I have been to Munich several times over the last 15 years or so, and every time I visited the city I planned to take the short train journey to Dachau.But for some bizarre reason I never got there.It was as if fate didn’t want me to go there, maybe it was afraid I wasn’t ready to face the horrors that were committed there, for I am an emotional man,not whiny but emotional.

I can not even fathom the disgust and hate the allied troops must have felt when they liberated the camp this day 72 years ago.

Below are pictures if what they found when they arrived on 29 April 1945, subsequently the same day Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun.

Polish survivors celebrating the liberation of Dachau

Walenty Lenarczyk, a prisoner at Dachau, stated that following the camp’s liberation “prisoners swarmed over the wire and grabbed the Americans and…

The Boston Herald published an odd commentary the other day, one that scoffed at core elements of the media myth of the “Cronkite Moment” of 1968 while repeating the dubious elements anyway.

Cronkite in Vietnam

Such can be the appeal of media-driven myths, those apocryphal or improbable tales about powerful media influence: They can be too compelling to resist and as such invite comparisons to the junk food of journalism.

The Herald’s commentary discussed the mythical “Cronkite Moment” as historical context in considering the lies told about the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which may have permanently damaged Joe Biden’s beleaguered presidency.

The commentary asserted:

“Back in 1968 widely respected CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite reported that the controversial war in Vietnam, which had so divided the country, was lost, hopelessly ‘mired in stalemate.’

“Coming from Cronkite, a battle-hardened World War II…