Trump has only been President for a week, and already policies on the far side of the world are shifting. Just like that, the European Union has realized they might have too many green regulations.
It’s only a “leaked draft” of a five year economic plan — but the favored hyperbolic term du jour “unprecedented” now applies to deregulation, not climate change: ““This Commission will deliver an unprecedented simplification effort…”. And apparently, next months unprecedented effort is just the first round of simplifications.
The draft document says they need to adapt to “new realities” — like possibly that the US economy is about to unshackle itself from the Net Zero ball-and-chain-fantasy and eclipse the EU.
A draft document shows Brussels putting deregulation before decarbonization.
Zia Weise, Politico
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s new economic “compass” has a north star the burgeoning movement to revoke stringent green rules will love.
A leaked draft of the European Commission’s competitiveness compass — an economic doctrine to guide the EU executive’s work for the coming five years — points toward widespread deregulation targeting the European Green Deal in particular.
Naturally, the EU will “stay the course” on its climate targets (that’s what they all say, as they back away). But the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk demanded a “full and critical” review of the EU’s Green Deal last week and laid the cards out about as bluntly as anyone could:
“If we go bankrupt no-one will care about the world’s environment any more,” Tusk said, calling for an honest, full and “very critical review of all regulations, including those arising from the Green Deal”.
Tusk wants any review to identify and change EU laws that may lead to higher energy prices. “There is, for example, the issue of ETS 2 in front of us,” he said, singling out the separate trading system covering emissions from road transport and heating fuels, which is scheduled to launch in 2027. — EU must be honest about Green Deal — The Argus
Unthinkably, Tusk even appeared to suggest that the Green Deal had caused high energy prices:
He called for a “review of all legal acts including those under the Green Deal” and for “courage to change those rules that might result in prohibitively high energy prices,” attacking, in particular, a carbon fee on fossil fuels used to heat homes and power cars coming into force in 2027. — Politico
France is also asking the EU to delay the corporate sustainability rules. The French “far-right” (sensible) Jordan Bardella wants to “tear down the European Green Deal”. He is urging conservative parties to work together to kill off the Green Deal altogether.
In the end Trump may kill Green movements all over the world, not by invading, but through free speech, capitalism and competition. That’s why they hate him so much. The whole levitating fantasy of global weather control could only be maintained if every other western nation kept up the Cosplay game.
On day one Donald Trump has pulled out of the Paris Agreement. He’s abandoned the WHO, rescinded 78 executive orders made by Joe Biden, and freed 1,500 political prisoners who came to the Capitol to protest 4 years ago. He declared a National Energy Emergency and removed the EV sales target (the 50 percent zero-emission new vehicle sales by the end of the decade). He has vowed to disassemble the vast Inflation Reduction Act which was a monster Green Climate Fund.
100,000 pointless climate grifter careers have just been extinguished.
For four long tortuous years he was treated like a criminal, derided and mocked, and even shot. He must surely have been planning this day in intricate detail. If it bugged him, he put it on the list, even to the point of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and reversing Denali back to Mount McKinley.
There are already reports of the State of Florida issuing notices about a storm in the Gulf of America.
“The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity,” Trump said at the Capital One Arena.
“You know, China, they use a lot of ‘dirty’ energy, but they produce a lot of energy and when that stuff goes up in the air, you know, [it] doesn’t stay there … it floats into the United States of America,” he said.
It is difficult to “fight for cleaner air” when “dirty air is dropping all over us,” Trump said. “Unless everybody does it, it just doesn’t work.”
Withdrawing from the climate pact will save taxpayers $1 trillion, the White House said.
First things, first — free speech is back:
Trump issued an executive order against government censorship, which he vowed would “bring back free speech to America.”
“Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents, something I know something about,” Trump said in his inaugural address.
The executive order establishes as policy that federal employees cannot restrain American citizens’ free speech or use money from taxpayers to that end.
And he will settle the score:
It also directs the attorney general to prepare a report to address abuses against Americans’ free speech under the Biden administration
Furthermore he signed an order demanding all agencies preserve their records “related to political persecutions.” He signed an executive order on the weaponization of government and has asked the attorney general to investigate abuses…
The 51 former intelligence officials who interfered in the 2020 election with a fake story to cover for Hunter Biden’s bombshell laptop — have already lost their security clearances.
It’s been a blockbuster day that will be talked about for years. Already there are calls for the Australian opposition leader to get us out of Paris too.
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Apologies, I am away from the desk alas and will be taking a few days off…
For all its flaws, the US is still the largest military force on the planet and the world’s largest economy. If Trump chooses to use that power, and he appears to want to, the draining will be global. The only question is “how much”?
Let’s not forget how close it was. As truly awful as the Kamala word-salad was, she still allegedly got 71 million votes compared to Trump’s 75 million. And if a mere 30,000 voters in Wisconsin, 80,000 in Michigan, and 120,000 in Pennsylvania had voted differently or been ballot harvested more efficiently, or were electronically hacked more competently, Kamala would have won. (270 Electoral college votes to 268).
The fate of the nation of 147 million voters (and the West) depended on just 230,000 choices or 0.16%.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
If the Blob had picked even a slightly less incompetent candidate, one without full blown dementia, or one able to string a whole coherent sentence together, then the advantages of state loving media, state directed tech censorship, mass immigration, electronic machines in 28 (or so) states and no voter ID would presumably have won the day.
Or if Elon Musk had not jumped all in, and spent $44 billion dollars for X…
When Mike Johnson got to meet President Biden he found out that Biden had no idea he had signed an EO to pause LNG exports to Europe. And Joe Biden was stunned…
Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) says: Does everyone realize what was just said here? Speaker Mike Johnson not only confirms that Joe Biden isn’t in control and signing executive orders he doesn’t understand but that to meet with Biden, The CIA Director had to be present. He just confirmed The CIA is running our country, not the president. This just confirmed another “conspiracy theory.
UPDATE: Brett Moulton points out Mike Johnson [Speaker of the House] had every legal ability to hold Biden accountable and did nothing. He could have brought forth impeachment hearings and even removed Biden from office.
And the announcements start:
BREAKING: President-elect Donald Trump has announced that all military members who were discharged for refusing the COVID mandate will be reinstated and receive full back pay, along with a formal apology from the United States Government.
Trump just said he WILL declassify all files related to the JFK assassination.
SpaceX just launched Starship Flight Test 7. As Elon Musk says about the booster section: “Atmospheric reentry speed is more than twice as fast as a bullet from an assault rifle and this is the largest flying object ever made“. Yet they still manage a perfect catch. The top speed on the return of the booster was 4,135 km/h. It went to space and back in just 7 minutes, reaching 90 km up.
The unmanned test rocket though, wasn’t so lucky, as SpaceX described it, suffering a ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent’.
The launch itself is a spectacle of raw power. As the rocket lifts off, it is so powerful it appears to create the weather around it almost, tearing through the atmosphere. Elon explains: “You can see the much higher propellant mass fraction of the new ship design by the percentage of rocket that is frosty.”
One commenter said SpaceX will change the way we fly. Elon said “Yes”.
Imagine being able to fly anywhere in the world in under an hour…
To be called “Far Right” implies someone is a horrible person, and you should probably hiss at them if they get too close. But on the prime time news, even bureaucrats pushing for One World Government, or slave owning dictators like President Xi are rarely introduced as “the Far Left President Xi”. That would give the game away, wouldn’t it? There would be constant reminders of the dangers of going “too far left”.
In its purest form the political right just want individual rights and smaller government, yet the “definition” of far right keeps shape-shifting to become somehow horribly authoritarian, “like Hitler”, of course, (the Socialist). Who benefits from this absurd definition? — Big Leftist collectivists, of course.
We the people cannot even have a conversation with easily recognizable words. The word fog is not an accident.
The real horrors are not the right wing people waving a national flag, and talking about individual rights, but the far left committees in Brussels or Davos that want to take your money, inject you, tell you what you can say, and take away a medicine that might save your life.
Savor the moment. Donald Trump says he wants no wind farms built during his Presidency, and before we can even crack the champagne , the AfD in Germany say if they are elected, they don’t just want to stop people building new wind plants, they want to tear some of the old ones down.
That’s what we like to see, some competition… Who can get to Not Zero the fastest?
Bloomberg) — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would seek to have a policy of having no wind farms constructed during his second term, threatening billions of dollars in planned wind projects.
“We are going to have a policy where no windmills are being built,” Trump said during a lengthy tirade against wind power during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Trump, who has vowed a first day executive order targeting wind farms, has long made no secret his disdain for the energy source. But his remarks Tuesday represented the sharpest threat yet from the incoming president.
Far-right German poltical party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) wants to tear down all wind turbines, according to the party’s candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel. “Down with all these windmills of shame,” she said at a party congress on Saturday in the eastern German town of Riesa, according to Bloomberg News.
Germany will hold Bundestag elections on Feb. 23, and AfD is in second place in the latest polls with 20-22% of eligible voters.
The main question every Western nation needs to get a grip on — is it cheaper to wait for wind turbines to reach the end of life while paying for batteries, flywheels, hydropower, gas storage, interconnectors, plus pandemonium, extra maintenance on your essential infrastructure, and possible blackouts, or to pay out the current wind contracts, and throw a farewell party?
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