August 26, 1850: Death of Louis Philippe I, King of the French
28 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
Louis Philippe I (October 6, 1773 – August 26, 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France.
Early life
Louis Philippe was born in the Palais Royal, the residence of the Orléans family in Paris, to Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, who was the daughter of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre and Princess Maria Teresa d’Este of Modena.
At the death of her brother, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon became the wealthiest heiress in France prior to the French Revolution. She was descended from Louis XIV of France through a legitimized line.
Louis Philippe I, King of the French
As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, Louis Philippe was a Prince of the Blood (Prince du sang), which entitled him the use of the style…
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Transition to Poverty: Britain Being Crushed By Staggering Cost of Wind & Solar Obsession
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What does the ‘inevitable’ wind and solar transition look like? Try power-starved Britain, where power prices are out of control, with much, much worse to come.
Last October, the average annual energy bill was £1,400 ($2,400). Energy industry analyst Cornwall Insight forecasts that the British price cap will skyrocket and the average annual bill will reach £3,582 ($6,177) in October this year. By January, it predicts it will be £5,000 (almost $10,000) a year.
By February, in the depth of a no doubt bitter winter, the average household will be spending £150 a week trying to keep the lights on and, perhaps, warming up a single room in their dimly lit homes. Householders will have the make the cruel choice between heating and eating. So far, so Third World.
None of this comes as a surprise to STT; we’ve been spelling it out on these pages for nearly a decade.
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Operation Market Garden | What went wrong at Nijmegen and Arnhem
28 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
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How governments and the cult of net zero wrecked the energy market – Telegraph
27 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
The headline says it all. Despite claiming ‘The original error was not with the science of climate change’ – well, we disagree there – the article charts the real course of the current energy fiasco quite well. Climate obsession has a lot to answer for.
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Putin may be the proximate cause of this crisis, but the reason we were vulnerable was an intentional policy to crush fossil fuel investment, says The Telegraph.
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And now? Well, now, as “big oil” might say: “We just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face.”
Europe needs gas. It is pleading for gas.
Instead of flying media to gas fields to court capital, the oil and gas men are being flown to the capitals of Europe and begged to invest.
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Disappearing glaciers ‘reveal’ 50-year-old plane wreckage in the Swiss Alps – so it became snow-covered after it crashed?
27 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
Disappearing glaciers for a century or more – so why wasn’t the crashed plane visible on the surface the whole time? We’re told: ‘The bodies of the three passengers were recovered by authorities at the time, but police say they didn’t have the capabilities to remove the plane from such a remote area.’ A video about the same story says ‘the glaciers have lost half their volume in less than a century’. Did they mean less than half a century? Something seems amiss here.
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In a helicopter high above the Swiss Alps, we see climate change in action, asserts Sky News.
The glacial ice is melting at an unprecedented rate, revealing items frozen long ago.
A scar suddenly appears in the bright white snow. A crumple of silver and red.
“That’s the plane,” says our guide, Dominik Nellen, pointing.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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