Utopia, you are standing in it!

With Biden and the Squad in the White House, the Californian experience of spiralling power prices will soon be delivered to all Americans, thanks to a raft of suicidal renewable energy policies that are about to be landed across the USA.

The energy hungry businesses and industries that Trump brought home, will soon start packing up and vanish in search of cheaper electricity.

In Australia, the damage has largely been done on that score.

Ludicrous subsidies to wind and solar have left reliable conventional power generators on the ropes, as those subsidies were designed to do. Power is delivered according to the weather, not the demands of businesses; big users, such as aluminium smelters, are forced to shut down when the wind stops blowing and the sun sets. And the power prices they suffer have doubled in a decade.

What appears in the paragraph above would have been inconceivable to…

Was he “Bluff King Hal,” the famous Renaissance Prince, or was he a bloated, arrogant tyrant who put his own interests above those of the kingdom? Do we remember him fondly as an intellectual purveyor of freedom, or rather as a self-seeking opportunist who opened the door to radical change? Who is the true Henry VIII? His persona is at once captivating and elusive. Henry VIII wore many hats throughout his lifetime, but surely his kingship is the most famous and also the most infamous of all English monarchs. Today, we see him proudly standing forth, clad in bright and exuberant colors, dressed as a peacock, donning extravagant Turkish costumes, bombastically shunning clerical Orthodoxy, founding his own church, marrying six different women, executing friends and foes alike. Henry VIII’s legacy remains bold, his stature towering, his life the stuff of legend, his reign consequential beyond a doubt. As a young…

Posted by Sara M. Butler; 5 February 2021.

In Ohio, Governor DeWine’s landmark 8 December 2020 press conference has left the future of felony execution in the state up in the air. The indefinite delay in capital punishment announced back in 2018 has turned into what DeWine is referring to as a “de facto moratorium,” as he instructs lawmakers to find some method of execution other than lethal injection. Since 2015, Ohio, like twenty-eight other American states where the death penalty remains on the books, has been struggling to find an American pharmaceutical company willing to supply sodium thiopental. A nation-wide shortage of the drug springs from the reluctance of drug companies to be openly associated with the death penalty. Past boycotts of their products across Europe have demonstrated that it is bad for business.

Those of us who are residents of Ohio, and not supporters of the death penalty…

The modern ‘green’ worships wind turbines and solar panels in the belief that they’re literally saving the planet, merrily ignoring the wave of environmental destruction wrought by their beloveds.

Solar panels are pitched as the paragon of ‘green’ energy, silently caressing the sun’s rays to give off an occasional burst of power that someone, somewhere just might need at that particular time. Although it’s always tough luck after sunset.

The idea that thousands of 260 m, 300 tonne wind turbines and millions of solar panels are – because of the virtuous energy they occasionally produce – a benign force in the environment is all part of the grand, collective delusion attached to our purportedly ‘inevitable’ transition to renewable energy.

This site, however, is dedicated to always letting the facts stand in the way of a good story. Especially when the facts in question are of the troublesome kind. Such as…