[ZeroHedge] Decades of 'consensus' around so-called climate catastrophe are now running into new economic, technological, and geopolitical realities.
Mix in AI and its unprecedented demand for large-scale electricity generation, and we have a global climate conversation that demands to be reckoned with.
Victor Davis Hanson breaks down how the foundations of decades of “green orthodoxy” are shifting:
For decades, the narrative demanded radical economic shifts from fossil fuels to renewables like wind and solar, but recent skepticism is growing due to inconsistencies in temperature records and cyclical changes; Hanson notes, "I didn't think in my lifetime that I would see an end to that dominance, even though there were inconsistencies."
Artificial intelligence requires unprecedented electricity, far beyond what wind and solar can provide, necessitating 100 gigawatt plants annually equivalent to nuclear or fossil fuels; as Hanson cites Sam Altman, "we're going to have to build 100 [one gigawatt plants] per year or the equivalent of clean coal or natural gas."
Figures like Sweden's King Gustaf XVI and Bill Gates have publicly questioned the crisis, while Trump's energy policies end subsidies for failed green projects like California's high-speed rail; Hanson highlights Gates' recent pivot, "he no longer believes that there is an impending climate change crisis."
Elite hypocrisy is everywhere as Hanson notes “the people who have been the avatars of climate change, never suffer the consequences of their own ideology."
"Barack Obama said the planet would be inundated pretty soon, if we didn't address global climate change. Why would he buy a seaside estate at Martha's Vineyard or one on the beach of Hawaii if he really did believe that the oceans would rise and flood his multimillion-dollar investment?
“The inconsistency of the global warming narrative, the self-interest in the people who promote it, and the logic that they have not presented, empirically, any evidence that would convince us that we have to radically transform our economies," leaves Hanson questioning whether AI's demand shift has permanently crushed the ideology of so-called 'climate change.'
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Oh, you mean like the ocean water level is NOT rising? Like most of the US today is experiencing record low temperatures? Hey, let's have a look at the latest satellite pix of the Arctic ice cap.
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[OnThisDay] Somehow, BLM, UNF, NAACP, the media & the various Race Pimps all managed to avoid covering one of the most important anniversary dates in the US Civil Rights Movement.
Dec. 01, 1955 - Rosa Park bus ride
Could be, because it reminds us of the DEMOCRATS Party's long-standing racist agenda and Segregation practices like Jim Crow laws?
Or, how the DNC has just modernized Racial Segregation, by creating Voter Plantations, SNAP, Welfare, fatherless families, and come every election the offer of illegal Reparations?
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They’ll come back to it, blame it on Republicans and get away with it because they have rewritten history. Dates are only important to them when they can be leveraged for power.
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I've recently read things that make me question the whole movement.
Rosa Parks was a professional activist. The photo we all see, was a re-creation of her staged event from a year later. The whole thing was not organic. She got on the bus, created the incident, then got off. She wasnt going to work, to school, or to grocery shop. The media were all complicit in cultivating her image, and as always - perpetuated lies by omission, the most grievous omission was her ties to Communist Party USA, her friendships with commie thought leaders of the day, and attending their CPUSA meetings.
[PJMedia] Maduro’s Ex-Insider Turns Snitch, Sends Trump an Explosive Letter
Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal Barrios is an ex-military intelligence officer for the Venezuelan government and was a powerful official within Maduro's Cartel de los Soles. Today, he's in U.S. custody, charged with narco-terrorism, among other things. As part of a plea deal for a lighter sentence, he's agreed to help the U.S. government by telling it everything he knows about Maduro and the cartel.
I've written a little about this in the past. He's "provided information on how he collaborated with Colombian guerrillas and supervised the shipment of tons of cocaine to North America," and in October, "during his pre-sentence hearing, his legal team admitted that Hugo Chávez and Maduro illegally used funds from PDVSA — Venezuela's state-run oil and natural gas company — to finance other left-wing political movements in the world for at least 15 years."
But on Wednesday, the Dallas Express exclusively obtained and published a letter that El Pollo wrote to Donald Trump, and boy, is it a doozy. To sum it up, he confirms something a lot of us already knew: Venezuela's "government" purposely and consistently targets the United States.
In the letter, he explains that he fled Venezuela in 2017, knowing that he was wanted in the United States and would face charges, but he wanted to "dismantle Maduro’s criminal regime and bring freedom to my country."
"Today, I see the need to address the American people about the reality of what the Venezuelan regime truly is—and why President Trump’s policies are not only correct, but absolutely necessary to the United States’ national security," he wrote.
There are four main parts to Barrios's letter. The first is narco-terrorism (emphasis mine):
I personally witnessed how Hugo Chávez's government became a criminal organization that is now run by Nicolás Maduro, Diosdado Cabello, and other senior regime officials.
The purpose of this organization, now known as the Cartel of the Suns is to weaponize drugs against the United States. The drugs that reached your cities through new routes were not accidents of corruption nor just the work of independent traffickers; they were deliberate policies coordinated by the Venezuelan regime against the United States.
This plan was suggested by the Cuban regime to Chávez in the mid-2000s and has been successfully executed with help from FARC, ELN, Cuban operatives, and Hezbollah. The regime has provided weapons, passports, and impunity for these terrorist organizations to operate freely from Venezuela against the United States.
The second part is on Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan prison gang turned terrorist organization that Maduro — and many Democrats — claim does not exist or is not that big of a deal.
I was present when decisions were made to organize and weaponize criminal gangs across Venezuela to protect the regime—among them the group known as Tren de Aragua. Chávez ordered the recruitment of criminal leaders inside and outside prisons to defend 'the revolution' in exchange for impunity. After Chávez died, Maduro expanded this strategy by exporting criminality and chaos abroad to target Venezuelan political exiles and artificially reduce crime statistics within Venezuela. Gang leaders were instructed to send thousands of members out of the country. This was coordinated through the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Prisons, the National Guard, and national police forces. Tren de Aragua became the most effective and fastest growing.
When the Biden–Harris open-border policy became widely known, they seized the opportunity to send these operatives into the United States. They now have obedient, armed personnel on American soil. To finance their operations, they were explicitly instructed to continue kidnapping, extorting, and killing. Every crime they commit on your soil is an act ordered by the regime.
The third part, entitled "Counterintelligence and Espionage Against the United States" is particularly unnerving.
I was present when Russian intelligence came to Caracas to propose to Hugo Chávez the tapping of submarine internet cables that connect most of South America and the Caribbean islands with the United States for the purpose of penetrating United States Government communications.
In 2015, I warned Maduro that allowing Russian intelligence to build and run a secret listening post on La Orchila Island would one day invite American bombs. He ignored me.
For twenty years, the Venezuelan regime sent spies into your country—many are still there, some disguised as members of the Venezuelan opposition. Cuban intelligence showed me their networks inside your naval bases on the East Coast. They bragged about having sent thousands of spies over decades, some now career politicians.
U.S. diplomats and CIA officers were paid to assist Chávez and Maduro in remaining in power. These Americans acted as spies for Cuba and Venezuela, and some remain active to this day.
And the fourth and final section is called "Smartmatic and Your Elections." This one's juicy.
Smartmatic was born as an electoral tool of the Venezuelan regime but soon derived into a tool to help keep the regime stay in power forever. I know this because I placed the head of IT of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in his position, and he reported directly to me. The Smartmatic system can be altered—this is a fact. This technology was later exported abroad, including to the United States. Regime operatives maintain relationships with election officials and voting-machine companies inside your country. I do not claim that every election is stolen, but I state with certainty that elections can be rigged with the software – and has been used to do so.
He concludes the letter with this:
People of the United States, make no mistake about the threat posed by allowing a narco-terrorist organization to roam freely in the Caribbean and throughout Latin America, doing everything possible to harm the American people—to finance anti-Americanism across the continent, and to facilitate the operations of other terrorist organizations and enemies of the United States within Venezuela and now within your borders.
The regime I served is not merely hostile — it is at war with you, using drugs, gangs, espionage, and even your own democratic processes as weapons. President Trump’s policies against the Maduro criminal regime are not just justified, but necessary and proportionate to the threat. He may even be underestimating what the regime is prepared to do to hold onto power. They have contingency plans for every extreme scenario to ensure they never relinquish control.
I absolutely support President Trump’s policy towards Venezuela, because it is in self-defense and he is acting based on the truth. I remain ready to provide additional details about these matters to the United States government.
Text taken from a Vk post at The Great Patriotic War page
These days we remember the feat of Soviet cavalrymen in the Don steppes in November - December 1942.
"The cavalry corps played a role in the offensive phase of the Battle of Stalingrad that is difficult to overestimate. Any encirclement operation requires not only cutting off the retreat and supply lines of the encircled forces, but also securing the outer front of the encirclement. If a strong outer front of the encirclement is not created, then the enemy can relieve the encircled forces with attacks from the outside (usually an outer encirclement by mechanized units), and all our efforts will be in vain.
Cavalry corps penetrate behind the encircled forces as deeply as possible into the enemy rear, seize key positions, and take up defensive positions.
At Stalingrad in November 1942, this role was assigned to three cavalry corps. Cavalry was chosen because the Red Army at that time had few well-trained mechanized units. It must be said that the terrain in the Stalingrad area was not conducive to the use of cavalry. Large forests, which usually provided cover for horsemen, were absent. On the contrary, the open terrain allowed the enemy to attack the cavalry corps with aircraft.
What were the formations that were to break through into the snowy steppe and then repel the attacks of German tanks? Northwest of Stalingrad were the 8th Cavalry Corps (21st, 55th, and 112th Cavalry Divisions) and the 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps (5th and 6th Guards Cavalry Divisions and the 32nd Cavalry Division). South of Stalingrad, the 4th Cavalry Corps (61st and 81st Cavalry Divisions) operated.
The 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps was the best-equipped of all. The other two corps were severely short of horses (1,874 in the 8th and 1,172 in the 4th Corps), forcing them to maintain infantry squadrons within their regiments.
...It so happened that the 2nd Guards Army's heroism at the Myshkovo River has been celebrated in literature and on film. The actions of those who ensured the 2nd Guards Army's deployment, unfortunately, remained unknown. This was especially true of the cavalry, particularly the 4th Cavalry Corps. Therefore, for many years, the cavalry bore the stigma of being an outdated and unimpressive branch of the armed forces. Without it, the encirclement of Paulus's army at Stalingrad might have failed..."
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I guess people can stop making fun of the Poles for having cavalry.
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See the book 'On the Roads of War: A Soviet Cavalryman on the Eastern Front' by Ivan Yakushin who details his experiences during WWII in the cavalry. Been a while since I read, but under the right conditions horse mounted cavalry remained usable and useful during WWII.
The Germans used horses to pull carts and lighter artillery pieces during WWII.
During WWII mules were widely used in northern Italy and in Burma going places that even the jeep couldn't go.
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Well Elon, I'll let somebody else try out the robots, same as the electric cars, and Starlink.
I'm of the 'non-guinea pig' variety.
That goes for neuralink as well.
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Or our current crop of zombies; I'm tempted to pull a cork and find a good seat.
[ZeroHedge] Altman's space ambitions come as Musk recently laid out his vision of humanoid robots, as well as AI data centers in low Earth orbit. Good for latency, bad for debris
The lowest cost place for data centers is space when 300 GW of computer data center you can power and cool in space when you have continuous solar and no batteries needed.
— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) November 19, 2025
Jeff Bezos has also recognized the need for data centers in space. Also, Bezos has the rocket company Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos plans to build a data center in space within the next 10+ years.
Unlimited solar energy [and cooling] available 24/7, space is an ideal location for data centers.$AMZN AWS is set to make major moves out there.
— Bourbon Capital (@BourbonCap) October 3, 2025
[BAYOURENAISSANCEMAN] Business Insider reports that drone guidance and signal cables are being strewn so thickly over the Ukrainian countryside that they're becoming a major hazard in themselves. I've included some photographs from social media to illustrate the problem.
Small unjammable drones controlled by fiber-optic cables have become so integral to Russian and Ukrainian combat operations that they are leaving trails of cabling everywhere, turning areas of the battlefield into a tangled web.
As a counter to extensive electronic warfare, fiber-optic drones are becoming increasingly prevalent on both sides. And with sprawling cables stretched across the battlefield, soldiers are moving with greater caution.
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Skid - they didnt really talk about battlefield wire litter.
But TIL Jews lost the first wave of the Yom Kippur War and had to retreat to Golan Heights with 28K Troops and some tanks, from where they launched a devasting counter attack to save the nation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ZeroHedge] Decades of 'consensus' around so-called climate catastrophe are now running into new economic, technological, and geopolitical realities.
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