News Round-Up
14 January 2025
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The world is closer to nuclear war than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis. And to what end, asks Eugyppius. Merely to "send a message" to North Korea, it appears.
While the West surrenders its energy security on the altar of Net Zero, China secures 80% of the world's solar market with its coal-fired economy. This is craziness, says Sallust, and Australia is waking up.
Net Zero is a "sinister goal", according to Trump's energy pick, who was also briefly silenced by LinkedIn for blasting climate policy in a viral video.
Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has sent Moderna, Pfizer and Novavax shares crashing.
Elon Musk has been appointed to lead Donald Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency alongside fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in what has been dubbed "the Manhattan Project of our time".
After the WHO's appalling record in Covid and its recent moves towards perma-crisis at the behest of those who profit, many are calling for it to be cancelled. What it needs, argues Dr David Bell, is a major overhaul.
Will Donald Trump kill Net Zero, asks Ben Pile. Yes. But more precisely Net Zero will kill Net Zero. Because no one wants to become Germany, with its headlong rush into deindustrialisation, least of all China and the USA.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy has previously described Donald Trump as "deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic". Here's a list of his many diplomatic blunders that now threaten the UK's national interest.
Donald Trump has won the U.S. Presidential election in a likely landslide as the Republican wins or is ahead in all seven swing states and the popular vote in a historic comeback.
Remember, remember, this fifth of November, not to celebrate bonfire night in California, where woke diversity targets for fire departments are putting hiring "compassionate" women above men who can do the job.
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