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Japan's solar boom has created a landslide problem, with developers increasingly building on steep, forested slopes. A national study found almost 20% of Japan's large solar farms have been built inside landslide hazard zones. Trees have been cleared, slopes cut back, and water retention removed. In heavy rain, failures... follow. Since 2012, Japan has logged hundreds of solar-related accidents, including sites damaged or destroyed by landslides during major downpours. And the projects keep getting bigger. In Chiba, one megasolar site cleared 150 hectares of forest, cutting down 365,000 trees directly above residential areas. These siting decisions have placed thousands of solar installations at risk, and documented failures are already occurring.show more

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Since 2023, Ujjain has been at the centre of a series of major infrastructure and urban development projects announced by the Madhya Pradesh government. An Indian Express investigation has found that during this period, members of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s family purchased 168 acres of land in and around the city. Much of this land is located in areas that have benefited from new road projects or changes allowing residential and commercial development. The report found that 111 acres are situated near key road projects announced by the government. Some family members have also secured contracts linked to the development of these areas. The findings have renewed questions over potential conflicts of interest, with the opposition alleging that planning decisions favoured areas where the Chief Minister’s family held land. The family said it has been in the real estate business since 2010 and cannot stop conducting business because it is related to the Chief Minister. Express investigation by: Jay Mazoomdaar

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Police say it is one of most elaborate encampments they have ever seen, with a mini-power grid, including solar panels, and multiple home appliances. The encampment was discovered last week by the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Police Service joint response encampment team. It was almost completely camouflaged and included four multi-level structures surrounded by a fence made of trees and broken branches. The structures had been built without nails or other forms of support and were at risk of collapse. Inside, police and park rangers found fire-stoves with lit fires, a stone fireplace, stone/marble flooring, a working fridge and washing machine, and live electrical wires strung haphazardly. Power was supplied by four generators, with solar panels powering a chop shop for stolen bikes. 15 weapons, including three guns, and about $8000 worth of stolen goods were recovered. Police have so far returned 2 backpack blowers and 1 mountain bike to their rightful owners. 20 violation tickets were written, and 10 warrants executed. The encampment caused significant environmental damage to the trees and root systems, and the nearby creek was dammed in multiple places to provide running water to one of the structures. The encampment has since been dismantled. Those living in it were offered access to services and supports, which they refused.

Police say it is one of most elaborate encampments they have ever seen, with a mini-power grid, including solar panels, and multiple home appliances. The encampment was discovered last week by the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Police Service joint response encampment team. It was almost completely camouflaged and included four multi-level structures surrounded by a fence made of trees and broken branches. The structures had been built without nails or other forms of support and were at risk of collapse. Inside, police and park rangers found fire-stoves with lit fires, a stone fireplace, stone/marble flooring, a working fridge and washing machine, and live electrical wires strung haphazardly. Power was supplied by four generators, with solar panels powering a chop shop for stolen bikes. 15 weapons, including three guns, and about $8000 worth of stolen goods were recovered. Police have so far returned 2 backpack blowers and 1 mountain bike to their rightful owners. 20 violation tickets were written, and 10 warrants executed. The encampment caused significant environmental damage to the trees and root systems, and the nearby creek was dammed in multiple places to provide running water to one of the structures. The encampment has since been dismantled. Those living in it were offered access to services and supports, which they refused.

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🚨 Private solar companies are being given grant money in New York State, they’re then pressuring farmers to sell their land Also Investment firms are offering $40k a month to farmers with hundreds of acres to to sell their land “My neighbors came to my farm last week and told me something absolutely terrifying. He owns over 100 acres of land right across the street from my farm. — We were just talking about different trends that we're noticing in the area and what's happening to farms and all of these different investment firms that are coming out of nowhere to buy up this farmland that is for sale right under our noses and no one even knows it's happening. He told me the other other day for his 100 acres behind me. He has been approached by and pressured by solar companies to sell his land to them. Multiple times they have come and tried to get him to sell this land. He said they lure you in by the promise of paying you anywhere from $30 to 40k a year as a payoff for selling this property to them. This guy's in his 70s. He said it's obviously appealing to other older folks who are just looking to finally get away from farming and retire with a nice 40k a year until they die. The problem is that then 100 hundred acres of arable, beautiful, upstate New York fertile land will turn into a dystopian solar farm that will bring down the property values of everybody in this area, be a huge eyesore. It'll kill the idyllicness of in every direction, not to mention the insane battery systems and overhead wires that have to be set up at these solar farms if any of you have ever gone near them. I thanked him for not selling out to these solar companies. He said he never plans to because that would change everything at all of the farms surrounding this 100 acres of land. It just makes me think about how many other people are being pressured by these companies as we speak to sell out. Doesn't help. In New York State that grant money has been given to these solar companies. There's pressure from the state for them to turn as much of our land into solar fields and farms as possible, and it's horrifying.”

🚨 Private solar companies are being given grant money in New York State, they’re then pressuring farmers to sell their land Also Investment firms are offering $40k a month to farmers with hundreds of acres to to sell their land “My neighbors came to my farm last week and told me something absolutely terrifying. He owns over 100 acres of land right across the street from my farm. — We were just talking about different trends that we're noticing in the area and what's happening to farms and all of these different investment firms that are coming out of nowhere to buy up this farmland that is for sale right under our noses and no one even knows it's happening. He told me the other other day for his 100 acres behind me. He has been approached by and pressured by solar companies to sell his land to them. Multiple times they have come and tried to get him to sell this land. He said they lure you in by the promise of paying you anywhere from $30 to 40k a year as a payoff for selling this property to them. This guy's in his 70s. He said it's obviously appealing to other older folks who are just looking to finally get away from farming and retire with a nice 40k a year until they die. The problem is that then 100 hundred acres of arable, beautiful, upstate New York fertile land will turn into a dystopian solar farm that will bring down the property values of everybody in this area, be a huge eyesore. It'll kill the idyllicness of in every direction, not to mention the insane battery systems and overhead wires that have to be set up at these solar farms if any of you have ever gone near them. I thanked him for not selling out to these solar companies. He said he never plans to because that would change everything at all of the farms surrounding this 100 acres of land. It just makes me think about how many other people are being pressured by these companies as we speak to sell out. Doesn't help. In New York State that grant money has been given to these solar companies. There's pressure from the state for them to turn as much of our land into solar fields and farms as possible, and it's horrifying.”

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So far, Dr. Jack Kruse and former Bush administration official Catherine Austin Fitts have revealed that the elite are concerned about increased cosmic radiation. One attributes it to the weakening of the magnetic field, while the other points to an upcoming Grand Solar Minimum. I’ve been talking about this for years. The current geomagnetic excursion causes the magnetic field to weaken, and we are also due to enter another Grand Solar Minimum. This will be the first since the rise of modern technology. In addition, we are due for another Bond Event. So far, I have revealed two safer locations, as both Jack Kruse and the Area 51 caller on Art Bell have said that there are safer places on Earth. The elite have major projects in one of these locations, which is a hot topic right now and has shown a strong magnetic anomaly in the past, particularly during the Bronze Age collapse. The other place is also very famous and has been mentioned by a certain powerful figure. Read my two posts by subscribing to my X account or Patreon. I will reveal more places, but they will not be public due to ongoing issues with the algorithm and heavy throttling.

So far, Dr. Jack Kruse and former Bush administration official Catherine Austin Fitts have revealed that the elite are concerned about increased cosmic radiation. One attributes it to the weakening of the magnetic field, while the other points to an upcoming Grand Solar Minimum. I’ve been talking about this for years. The current geomagnetic excursion causes the magnetic field to weaken, and we are also due to enter another Grand Solar Minimum. This will be the first since the rise of modern technology. In addition, we are due for another Bond Event. So far, I have revealed two safer locations, as both Jack Kruse and the Area 51 caller on Art Bell have said that there are safer places on Earth. The elite have major projects in one of these locations, which is a hot topic right now and has shown a strong magnetic anomaly in the past, particularly during the Bronze Age collapse. The other place is also very famous and has been mentioned by a certain powerful figure. Read my two posts by subscribing to my X account or Patreon. I will reveal more places, but they will not be public due to ongoing issues with the algorithm and heavy throttling.

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You will remember that a month or two ago, I posted about the solar system at my home in Johannesburg, which has allowed me to hardly use Eskom or City Power because it generates enough energy for my entire usage, including powering geysers. After that post, one of you on this page, a solar expert, reached out privately and advised me to remove the electric geysers from the main solar system. He said the solar batteries were doing too many cycles because they were powering the geysers, and that this would shorten their lifespan. His advice was simple, remove the geysers from the battery load if I wanted the batteries to last the full period that they are built for. I took that advice seriously. I then asked my plumber, Shanil, who owns Metro Plumbers, to guide me on where to get high-quality solar geysers in Johannesburg so that I could replace the electric ones. Shanil told me about a new technology called the Elon Smart Solar PV System. He explained that it is much cheaper than buying completely new solar geysers. Instead of replacing the electric geyser, you simply buy the Elon unit, which comes with its own solar panels, and it is fitted onto your existing electric geyser. That is what I did. I have now removed all four electric geysers from the home solar system that powers my home. Each of them has been converted using the Elon Smart Solar PV technology. They are now powered by their own dedicated solar panels. The four geysers are running on a total of thirteen panels. So what this means is that I will never use Eskom or City Power again because in the past, when it was cloudy for three or four days, I would return to the grid to assist the batteries. This was happening because the batteries were carrying a heavy load that included four geysers. Now that the geysers have been removed from the main solar system and converted to their own dedicated solar supply, I will never return to Eskom or City Power. Even on cloudy days unless the solar system breaks down. The system is able to generate enough power for everything that I need. I also use a gas cooker, which helps reduce the electrical load. I hope this information helps you. If I had gone for the top-quality geysers that are exclusively solar, I would have paid between R25,000 and R30,000 per geyser. That would have come to around R120,000 for four geysers. Of course, there are cheaper solar geysers that you can get, but they are cheaper for a reason. So, in essence, I saved half the amount I would have paid for the geysers if I had chosen top-quality solar geysers. If you are in Johannesburg and you are interested, Shanil’s number is +27 (76) 890-5582. He can do the work for you. The gadgets and their panels cost R60,000 from Plumbing Supplies Sanitaryware Centre in Woodmead. So I have had the system in place for a week now and it is working very well. I have deliberately allowed all the geysers to continue heating so that I could test whether everything is functioning correctly, and the water is as hot as it should be. So that is the story. I thought I should share it with you for those who might want to reduce their bills. P/s The other interesting key feature of this system is that I can control it from my phone. If it is very cloudy and the water is not as hot as I want it to be, I can simply go onto the app and instruct that particular geyser to use the grid. Unlike my previous setup, where I had to switch the whole home solar system onto the grid, now each individual geyser can independently switch to the grid and heat the water to a temperature that I have set. Once the water reaches that set temperature, it automatically disconnects. I can also decide to switch off a geyser from using electricity, in my case from my solar system, or for those who do not have solar systems, from Eskom. In the same way, I can switch it off from using the solar panels. For instance, if there are four geysers and one of them is in a bedroom that is not being used, I can switch off that geyser completely so that it is not heating water unnecessarily. This gives you control, flexibility, and saves you a lot of money in the long run. You can read more about this technology here;

You will remember that a month or two ago, I posted about the solar system at my home in Johannesburg, which has allowed me to hardly use Eskom or City Power because it generates enough energy for my entire usage, including powering geysers. After that post, one of you on this page, a solar expert, reached out privately and advised me to remove the electric geysers from the main solar system. He said the solar batteries were doing too many cycles because they were powering the geysers, and that this would shorten their lifespan. His advice was simple, remove the geysers from the battery load if I wanted the batteries to last the full period that they are built for. I took that advice seriously. I then asked my plumber, Shanil, who owns Metro Plumbers, to guide me on where to get high-quality solar geysers in Johannesburg so that I could replace the electric ones. Shanil told me about a new technology called the Elon Smart Solar PV System. He explained that it is much cheaper than buying completely new solar geysers. Instead of replacing the electric geyser, you simply buy the Elon unit, which comes with its own solar panels, and it is fitted onto your existing electric geyser. That is what I did. I have now removed all four electric geysers from the home solar system that powers my home. Each of them has been converted using the Elon Smart Solar PV technology. They are now powered by their own dedicated solar panels. The four geysers are running on a total of thirteen panels. So what this means is that I will never use Eskom or City Power again because in the past, when it was cloudy for three or four days, I would return to the grid to assist the batteries. This was happening because the batteries were carrying a heavy load that included four geysers. Now that the geysers have been removed from the main solar system and converted to their own dedicated solar supply, I will never return to Eskom or City Power. Even on cloudy days unless the solar system breaks down. The system is able to generate enough power for everything that I need. I also use a gas cooker, which helps reduce the electrical load. I hope this information helps you. If I had gone for the top-quality geysers that are exclusively solar, I would have paid between R25,000 and R30,000 per geyser. That would have come to around R120,000 for four geysers. Of course, there are cheaper solar geysers that you can get, but they are cheaper for a reason. So, in essence, I saved half the amount I would have paid for the geysers if I had chosen top-quality solar geysers. If you are in Johannesburg and you are interested, Shanil’s number is +27 (76) 890-5582. He can do the work for you. The gadgets and their panels cost R60,000 from Plumbing Supplies Sanitaryware Centre in Woodmead. So I have had the system in place for a week now and it is working very well. I have deliberately allowed all the geysers to continue heating so that I could test whether everything is functioning correctly, and the water is as hot as it should be. So that is the story. I thought I should share it with you for those who might want to reduce their bills. P/s The other interesting key feature of this system is that I can control it from my phone. If it is very cloudy and the water is not as hot as I want it to be, I can simply go onto the app and instruct that particular geyser to use the grid. Unlike my previous setup, where I had to switch the whole home solar system onto the grid, now each individual geyser can independently switch to the grid and heat the water to a temperature that I have set. Once the water reaches that set temperature, it automatically disconnects. I can also decide to switch off a geyser from using electricity, in my case from my solar system, or for those who do not have solar systems, from Eskom. In the same way, I can switch it off from using the solar panels. For instance, if there are four geysers and one of them is in a bedroom that is not being used, I can switch off that geyser completely so that it is not heating water unnecessarily. This gives you control, flexibility, and saves you a lot of money in the long run. You can read more about this technology here;

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Edmonton Police have uncovered one of the most elaborate encampments they've ever encountered, featuring a makeshift power grid with solar panels and various household appliances. Discovered last week by a joint team from the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Police Service, the encampment was expertly camouflaged and included four multi-level structures enclosed by a fence made of trees and branches. Built without nails or structural support, the structures were at risk of collapse. Inside, police and park rangers found active fire stoves, a stone fireplace, stone and marble flooring, a working refrigerator and washing machine, and exposed live electrical wires. Power was supplied by four generators, while solar panels powered a chop shop for stolen bikes. In the raid, police recovered 15 weapons (including three guns) and approximately $8,000 in stolen goods, returning items like backpack blowers and a mountain bike to their owners. Authorities issued 20 violation tickets and executed 10 warrants. The encampment caused extensive environmental damage, impacting tree root systems and a nearby creek, which had been dammed to supply running water. After dismantling the encampment, police offered support services to its occupants, which they declined.

Edmonton Police have uncovered one of the most elaborate encampments they've ever encountered, featuring a makeshift power grid with solar panels and various household appliances. Discovered last week by a joint team from the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Police Service, the encampment was expertly camouflaged and included four multi-level structures enclosed by a fence made of trees and branches. Built without nails or structural support, the structures were at risk of collapse. Inside, police and park rangers found active fire stoves, a stone fireplace, stone and marble flooring, a working refrigerator and washing machine, and exposed live electrical wires. Power was supplied by four generators, while solar panels powered a chop shop for stolen bikes. In the raid, police recovered 15 weapons (including three guns) and approximately $8,000 in stolen goods, returning items like backpack blowers and a mountain bike to their owners. Authorities issued 20 violation tickets and executed 10 warrants. The encampment caused extensive environmental damage, impacting tree root systems and a nearby creek, which had been dammed to supply running water. After dismantling the encampment, police offered support services to its occupants, which they declined.

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Canadian Solar [Full Investment Thesis]: Everything You Need to Know About $CSIQ “THE GREAT SOLAR RECKONING” ☀️ 🔋$CSIQ became my largest position earlier this year, after I had been studying the company since 2023. Here is my 250-page, ~three-hour presentation on Canadian Solar. I made this video to compress the 1,000+ hours of work already done here, hopefully helping speed up the learning curve for anyone interested.☀️🔋 This is not meant to be flawless. It is meant to be done. I believe $CSIQ is entering one of the most promising periods in its history. With $15B+ in total assets, three multi-billion-dollar businesses spanning solar manufacturing, storage manufacturing, and project development across six continents, and a mere ~$1B market capitalization, Canadian Solar is poised to be one of the top energy performers in 2026. The market has left this company for dead. But underneath the surface, the foundations of the business have been getting stronger: - While the solar industry wrongly spent on building overcapacity, Canadian Solar was one of the few companies slowing down and investing upstream into its project development arm. - While everyone looked to globalize supply chains, Canadian Solar has been building its manufacturing presence in the U.S. since 2023. - While much of the industry was still debating battery storage, Canadian Solar was already building gigawatt-scale projects in 2021. Today, it is reaping the benefits of having been a first mover. This is the story of a company that, despite operating in a ruthless and complicated industry, has consistently been deliberate and rational in its capital allocation decisions. It remains founder-led, with the founder still owning ~20% of the company. Shareholder value creation will always be top of mind, regardless of the market’s current irrationality. The solar industry, like every commodity industry, is deeply cyclical. I am convinced we have already seen the worst of it, and that better profitability is ahead for equipment manufacturers. This is already starting to show in CSI Solar’s Q1 2026 results, with $100M+ in operating profit for the quarter. The supply-demand imbalance for electricity should result in excess profitability. $CSIQ is about to make the undeniable obvious: Canadian Solar is a Western (actually, global) leader in renewable energy. Not middle of the pack. At the very top. They produce ~25 GW of solar modules per year and ~15 GWh of storage per year. For reference, the entire U.S. added roughly 60 GW of total generation capacity in 2025. And they do not only manufacture. They also develop, engineer, construct, and operate billions of dollars of energy assets. That creates a powerful learning and feedback loop between manufacturing and operations, allowing them to stay ahead of the curve. Their BESS experience is the clearest example. At first glance, my estimates and projections may look overly optimistic. But I would ask you to take the time to analyze each one individually. I think you will see that even my bull case uses assumptions that many people already treat as base case assumptions for comparable companies such as $FLNC, $TE, $FSLR, $AMRC, $NXT, and others. My base case assumes roughly half the profitability the industry expects from peers, and still results in an ~10x investment opportunity. Not growing into it. Worth that today. Please feel free to share your thoughts, feedback, questions, and pushback!! ☀️☀️🔋🔋 Timeline CSIQ: 0:00 Introduction 1:38 Executive Summary 11:35 Macro 18:15 Corporate History 21:00 Management & Team 25:10 Solar Industry & Market 42:47 CSI Solar - the $7B solar behemoth $CSIQ owns 57:00 Project Demand - CSI Solar 1:00:05 BESS Subsidiary with Multi-GWh Firm Orders 1:05:35 Project Demand for e-Storage/BESS 1:11:44 Recurrent Energy - The Multi-Billion Renewable Project Developer 1:34:36 US Manufacturing - 10GWs of Capacity and First Ever to Produce Solar Cells Domestically 1:56:15 Competitors 2:19:29 Litigation 2:28:32 Quality 2:30:52 Valuation & Financial Analysis 2:40:40 Conclusion 2:43:15 Miscellaneous Disclaimer: This post is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell $CSIQ or any other security mentioned here. I am not a registered investment advisor (RIA). Always do your own research (DYOR). I and/or accounts under my management or discretion, may currently hold positions in $CSIQ and may purchase or sell shares at any time without further notice. My opinions, price targets, and allocation suggestions are my personal views and can change without prior notice. Investing in stocks involves a significant risk of loss of capital. Past performance is not indicative of future results. If you found this useful, follow me for more deep dives like this. I spend a ridiculous amount of time studying this whole ecosystem. Please like and share this post if you think more people should be aware of how attractive Canadian Solar could be as an investment opportunity.

Canadian Solar [Full Investment Thesis]: Everything You Need to Know About $CSIQ “THE GREAT SOLAR RECKONING” ☀️ 🔋$CSIQ became my largest position earlier this year, after I had been studying the company since 2023. Here is my 250-page, ~three-hour presentation on Canadian Solar. I made this video to compress the 1,000+ hours of work already done here, hopefully helping speed up the learning curve for anyone interested.☀️🔋 This is not meant to be flawless. It is meant to be done. I believe $CSIQ is entering one of the most promising periods in its history. With $15B+ in total assets, three multi-billion-dollar businesses spanning solar manufacturing, storage manufacturing, and project development across six continents, and a mere ~$1B market capitalization, Canadian Solar is poised to be one of the top energy performers in 2026. The market has left this company for dead. But underneath the surface, the foundations of the business have been getting stronger: - While the solar industry wrongly spent on building overcapacity, Canadian Solar was one of the few companies slowing down and investing upstream into its project development arm. - While everyone looked to globalize supply chains, Canadian Solar has been building its manufacturing presence in the U.S. since 2023. - While much of the industry was still debating battery storage, Canadian Solar was already building gigawatt-scale projects in 2021. Today, it is reaping the benefits of having been a first mover. This is the story of a company that, despite operating in a ruthless and complicated industry, has consistently been deliberate and rational in its capital allocation decisions. It remains founder-led, with the founder still owning ~20% of the company. Shareholder value creation will always be top of mind, regardless of the market’s current irrationality. The solar industry, like every commodity industry, is deeply cyclical. I am convinced we have already seen the worst of it, and that better profitability is ahead for equipment manufacturers. This is already starting to show in CSI Solar’s Q1 2026 results, with $100M+ in operating profit for the quarter. The supply-demand imbalance for electricity should result in excess profitability. $CSIQ is about to make the undeniable obvious: Canadian Solar is a Western (actually, global) leader in renewable energy. Not middle of the pack. At the very top. They produce ~25 GW of solar modules per year and ~15 GWh of storage per year. For reference, the entire U.S. added roughly 60 GW of total generation capacity in 2025. And they do not only manufacture. They also develop, engineer, construct, and operate billions of dollars of energy assets. That creates a powerful learning and feedback loop between manufacturing and operations, allowing them to stay ahead of the curve. Their BESS experience is the clearest example. At first glance, my estimates and projections may look overly optimistic. But I would ask you to take the time to analyze each one individually. I think you will see that even my bull case uses assumptions that many people already treat as base case assumptions for comparable companies such as $FLNC, $TE, $FSLR, $AMRC, $NXT, and others. My base case assumes roughly half the profitability the industry expects from peers, and still results in an ~10x investment opportunity. Not growing into it. Worth that today. Please feel free to share your thoughts, feedback, questions, and pushback!! ☀️☀️🔋🔋 Timeline CSIQ: 0:00 Introduction 1:38 Executive Summary 11:35 Macro 18:15 Corporate History 21:00 Management & Team 25:10 Solar Industry & Market 42:47 CSI Solar - the $7B solar behemoth $CSIQ owns 57:00 Project Demand - CSI Solar 1:00:05 BESS Subsidiary with Multi-GWh Firm Orders 1:05:35 Project Demand for e-Storage/BESS 1:11:44 Recurrent Energy - The Multi-Billion Renewable Project Developer 1:34:36 US Manufacturing - 10GWs of Capacity and First Ever to Produce Solar Cells Domestically 1:56:15 Competitors 2:19:29 Litigation 2:28:32 Quality 2:30:52 Valuation & Financial Analysis 2:40:40 Conclusion 2:43:15 Miscellaneous Disclaimer: This post is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell $CSIQ or any other security mentioned here. I am not a registered investment advisor (RIA). Always do your own research (DYOR). I and/or accounts under my management or discretion, may currently hold positions in $CSIQ and may purchase or sell shares at any time without further notice. My opinions, price targets, and allocation suggestions are my personal views and can change without prior notice. Investing in stocks involves a significant risk of loss of capital. Past performance is not indicative of future results. If you found this useful, follow me for more deep dives like this. I spend a ridiculous amount of time studying this whole ecosystem. Please like and share this post if you think more people should be aware of how attractive Canadian Solar could be as an investment opportunity.

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Flooding issue resolved in 70% of the identified areas of Bengaluru, remaining to be fixed soon. We had identified 210 areas as flood prone in Bengaluru. Ever since I took over as the Bengaluru Development Minister, we have fixed flooding issues in 166 (70%) of those localities. Flood prevention work is currently going on in 24 areas while work would soon be taken up in the remaining 20 areas. We have built 197 km of storm water drains. Traffic police have identified 132 spots which are flooded during heavy rains. Of these, we have rectified issues in 82 spots and 41 spots are yet to be fixed. We are spending Rs 2000 crore for storm water drains. Rain is controlled by nature while we can only try to control the controllables. We are rectifying flood-prone areas and are trying to help the common people. Quantum of rainfall has been very high in Silk Board junction, Hebbal and Yelahanka area. Underpass works are underway in a couple of places in these areas and they have been flooded. We will work with those departments to resolve these issues. - My statements to the media during the press meet at the BBMP War Room earlier today. #BengaluruRains

Flooding issue resolved in 70% of the identified areas of Bengaluru, remaining to be fixed soon. We had identified 210 areas as flood prone in Bengaluru. Ever since I took over as the Bengaluru Development Minister, we have fixed flooding issues in 166 (70%) of those localities. Flood prevention work is currently going on in 24 areas while work would soon be taken up in the remaining 20 areas. We have built 197 km of storm water drains. Traffic police have identified 132 spots which are flooded during heavy rains. Of these, we have rectified issues in 82 spots and 41 spots are yet to be fixed. We are spending Rs 2000 crore for storm water drains. Rain is controlled by nature while we can only try to control the controllables. We are rectifying flood-prone areas and are trying to help the common people. Quantum of rainfall has been very high in Silk Board junction, Hebbal and Yelahanka area. Underpass works are underway in a couple of places in these areas and they have been flooded. We will work with those departments to resolve these issues. - My statements to the media during the press meet at the BBMP War Room earlier today. #BengaluruRains

DK Shivakumar

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🇨🇳☀️ The Truth About China’s Wumeng Mountain Solar Farms: Not the Lies Which Are Going Viral A video is spreading claiming “countless habitats were bulldozed for 40,000 acres of solar panels in Wumeng Mountain, China.” It’s dramatic… but it’s also completely wrong. If you want to learn something, read on... Here’s what’s actually happening 👇 1. Where is Wumeng Mountain? The Wumeng range stretches across Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan, one of China’s historically poorest, most degraded regions. Think: • Barren slopes • Karst terrain (thin rocky soil, hard for plants to grow) • Severe soil erosion • Thin, non-arable land • Over-mined, over-farmed areas It is NOT rainforest. It is NOT an untouched wildlife paradise. It has been one of China’s most ecologically fragile regions for decades. 2. What China built there? China is installing large-scale mountain solar farms on land that: • Can’t grow crops • Can’t support dense forest (for reforestation) • Has low ecological value • Was already stripped or degraded The projects follow the terrain. Nothing is “flattened.” No forests bulldozed. And many sites are dual-use agrivoltaic farms, goats and sheep graze under the panels and native vegetation returns because the land is no longer being over-farmed. 3. “Destroyed habitats”? Not even close Every major renewables project in China requires an Environmental Impact Assessment and since 2020, solar/wind cannot be built in: ❌ Protected forests ❌ National parks ❌ Primary ecosystems ❌ Wildlife reserves The chosen sites were already degraded hillside scrubland. Studies from Guizhou & Yunnan show: • Soil erosion drops sharply under solar arrays • Moisture increases • Native plants recover • Insects return and birds return Solar farms here are actually restoring the land, the opposite of the fear-mongering claims. 4. Environmental outcome: massively positive A 40,000-acre mountain solar farm delivers 6–8 GW of power. That’s enough to replace: 🔥 6 coal plants 🔥 30–40 million tonnes of CO₂ per year It uses zero water, releases zero pollution and allows vegetation to regrow. Meanwhile, Guizhou/Yunnan’s old coal basins produced decades of pollution and ecological damage. This is what cleaning up looks like. 5. Why the viral video is misleading? ⚠️ The narrative relies on: • A dramatic aerial shot • Zero local context • Ignoring land-type and terrain • Pretending this was untouched wilderness • Ignoring China’s laws protecting high-value ecosystems • Ignoring rural poverty alleviation • Ignoring the CO₂ reductions • Ignoring that mountain solar is built on non-arable, pre-degraded land If this exact project was built in Europe, it would be hailed as “green innovation.” But because it’s China, the West suddenly cries “environmental disaster.” The hypocrisy is insane. Absolutely INSANE! 6. What the Wumeng solar project actually represents ✔ Restoring degraded land ✔ Ending small coal mines ✔ Stabilising mountain soils ✔ Providing clean energy ✔ Raising local rural income ✔ Helping communities escape poverty ✔ Lowering global emissions (massively) ✔ Proving China’s renewables leadership, again China builds more solar each year than the entire rest of the world combined. This is what that looks like at ground level. Here is the truth: - There is no “eco-wasteland.” - No mass habitat destruction. - Just Western social media doing what it always does, misrepresenting China to score political points. The Wumeng solar rollout is one of the most successful examples of turning damaged land into clean energy and it is lifting entire regions out of poverty while cutting emissions on a global scale. China is the world’s largest reforestation nation, adding over 70 million hectares of new forests since the 1990s, more than any other country on Earth. From the Three-North Shelterbelt to the Grain-for-Green program, China is repairing past damage at a scale no Western nation has even attempted. Stop spreading lies about “destroyed habitats” when China is literally leading the world in restoring them. The real story is far more impressive than the propaganda being pushed online.

🇨🇳☀️ The Truth About China’s Wumeng Mountain Solar Farms: Not the Lies Which Are Going Viral A video is spreading claiming “countless habitats were bulldozed for 40,000 acres of solar panels in Wumeng Mountain, China.” It’s dramatic… but it’s also completely wrong. If you want to learn something, read on... Here’s what’s actually happening 👇 1. Where is Wumeng Mountain? The Wumeng range stretches across Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan, one of China’s historically poorest, most degraded regions. Think: • Barren slopes • Karst terrain (thin rocky soil, hard for plants to grow) • Severe soil erosion • Thin, non-arable land • Over-mined, over-farmed areas It is NOT rainforest. It is NOT an untouched wildlife paradise. It has been one of China’s most ecologically fragile regions for decades. 2. What China built there? China is installing large-scale mountain solar farms on land that: • Can’t grow crops • Can’t support dense forest (for reforestation) • Has low ecological value • Was already stripped or degraded The projects follow the terrain. Nothing is “flattened.” No forests bulldozed. And many sites are dual-use agrivoltaic farms, goats and sheep graze under the panels and native vegetation returns because the land is no longer being over-farmed. 3. “Destroyed habitats”? Not even close Every major renewables project in China requires an Environmental Impact Assessment and since 2020, solar/wind cannot be built in: ❌ Protected forests ❌ National parks ❌ Primary ecosystems ❌ Wildlife reserves The chosen sites were already degraded hillside scrubland. Studies from Guizhou & Yunnan show: • Soil erosion drops sharply under solar arrays • Moisture increases • Native plants recover • Insects return and birds return Solar farms here are actually restoring the land, the opposite of the fear-mongering claims. 4. Environmental outcome: massively positive A 40,000-acre mountain solar farm delivers 6–8 GW of power. That’s enough to replace: 🔥 6 coal plants 🔥 30–40 million tonnes of CO₂ per year It uses zero water, releases zero pollution and allows vegetation to regrow. Meanwhile, Guizhou/Yunnan’s old coal basins produced decades of pollution and ecological damage. This is what cleaning up looks like. 5. Why the viral video is misleading? ⚠️ The narrative relies on: • A dramatic aerial shot • Zero local context • Ignoring land-type and terrain • Pretending this was untouched wilderness • Ignoring China’s laws protecting high-value ecosystems • Ignoring rural poverty alleviation • Ignoring the CO₂ reductions • Ignoring that mountain solar is built on non-arable, pre-degraded land If this exact project was built in Europe, it would be hailed as “green innovation.” But because it’s China, the West suddenly cries “environmental disaster.” The hypocrisy is insane. Absolutely INSANE! 6. What the Wumeng solar project actually represents ✔ Restoring degraded land ✔ Ending small coal mines ✔ Stabilising mountain soils ✔ Providing clean energy ✔ Raising local rural income ✔ Helping communities escape poverty ✔ Lowering global emissions (massively) ✔ Proving China’s renewables leadership, again China builds more solar each year than the entire rest of the world combined. This is what that looks like at ground level. Here is the truth: - There is no “eco-wasteland.” - No mass habitat destruction. - Just Western social media doing what it always does, misrepresenting China to score political points. The Wumeng solar rollout is one of the most successful examples of turning damaged land into clean energy and it is lifting entire regions out of poverty while cutting emissions on a global scale. China is the world’s largest reforestation nation, adding over 70 million hectares of new forests since the 1990s, more than any other country on Earth. From the Three-North Shelterbelt to the Grain-for-Green program, China is repairing past damage at a scale no Western nation has even attempted. Stop spreading lies about “destroyed habitats” when China is literally leading the world in restoring them. The real story is far more impressive than the propaganda being pushed online.

James Wood 武杰士

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🇮🇱 The Israeli Air Force has released its first official report: 📌 “Since the early morning hours, approximately 200 fighter aircraft, under the direction of Military Intelligence and Air Force command, have carried out a large-scale strike on the missile systems and defensive infrastructure of Iran’s terrorist regime in western and central Iran.” 📌 “This is the largest aerial operation in the history of the Israeli Air Force, conducted with meticulous planning and high-quality intelligence, involving synchronized action by hundreds of aircraft. Air Force planes dropped hundreds of bombs on approximately 500 targets, including air defense systems and missile launch sites across various sectors of Iran.” 📌 “The strike on defense systems enabled the achievement of air superiority over Iranian airspace and dealt a heavy blow to the regime’s primary offensive capabilities — particularly ballistic missile launchers located in western Iran.” 🟨 The U.S.–Israel air operation against Iran has now been underway for more than 11 hours. Aircraft are reportedly flying inside Iranian airspace — including over Tehran — without losses. At this time, not a single U.S. or Israeli fighter jet has been shot down or even damaged.

🇮🇱 The Israeli Air Force has released its first official report: 📌 “Since the early morning hours, approximately 200 fighter aircraft, under the direction of Military Intelligence and Air Force command, have carried out a large-scale strike on the missile systems and defensive infrastructure of Iran’s terrorist regime in western and central Iran.” 📌 “This is the largest aerial operation in the history of the Israeli Air Force, conducted with meticulous planning and high-quality intelligence, involving synchronized action by hundreds of aircraft. Air Force planes dropped hundreds of bombs on approximately 500 targets, including air defense systems and missile launch sites across various sectors of Iran.” 📌 “The strike on defense systems enabled the achievement of air superiority over Iranian airspace and dealt a heavy blow to the regime’s primary offensive capabilities — particularly ballistic missile launchers located in western Iran.” 🟨 The U.S.–Israel air operation against Iran has now been underway for more than 11 hours. Aircraft are reportedly flying inside Iranian airspace — including over Tehran — without losses. At this time, not a single U.S. or Israeli fighter jet has been shot down or even damaged.

NSTRIKE

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The systematic destruction of livestock by Pakistan's invading military in the Republic of Balochistan 6 July, 2026 We have repeatedly stated that Pakistan's external occupying military bears direct responsibility for the insecurity and economic devastation in the Republic of Balochistan. For the past seventy-eight years, Pakistan's military has been involved in what we describe as a campaign of genocide against the people of Balochistan. During the military operation of 1973, nearly one hundred thousand livestock were looted or killed as a result of military bombardments in the Kohlu, Kahan, and Chamalang areas of the Marri highlands. Since Pakistan's occupation of Balochistan, its repression has extended beyond human lives. Today, neither our livestock nor our agricultural crops are safe. Pakistan's occupying military has deliberately targeted nomadic herders and farmers who depend on livestock for their survival, showing no hesitation in destroying their means of livelihood through what can only be described as economic devastation. On 3 June last month, the occupying Pakistani military carried out a drone strike on the home of an ordinary civilian, Muhammad Ibrahim, in Dasht Kambil, Mastung. Fortunately, no members of the family were physically injured. However, the attack killed more than 100 head of livestock belonging to the family, destroying their sole source of income and leaving them in severe economic hardship. With employment opportunities almost non-existent across much of Balochistan, a significant portion of the population depends on livestock herding and animal husbandry for survival. Many families spend their lives in remote mountainous regions alongside their animals. Tragically, these hardworking inhabitants of the Balochistan have repeatedly become direct victims of the occupying Pakistani military's violence and aggression. During military operations, their homes have been burned, men and women have been subjected to extrajudicial killings, many have been forcibly disappeared, and their only means of livelihood their livestock has been deliberately destroyed. Depriving already marginalized communities of their livestock or intentionally targeting them in this manner constitutes not only an attack on civilians but also a form of economic destruction that strips vulnerable families of their ability to survive. Comparable patterns have been documented in other armed conflicts around the world, where occupying or warring forces have targeted livestock, crops, or civilian livelihoods as part of broader military campaigns. In Sudan, particularly during the conflict in Darfur, numerous international investigations documented the burning of villages, destruction of crops, theft of livestock, and displacement of rural communities, leaving countless families without food or economic security. In Myanmar, military operations in ethnic minority regions have been accompanied by reports from international human rights organizations the destruction of villages, burning of food stocks, confiscation of livestock, and attacks on civilian livelihoods. In South Sudan, cattle raids and the deliberate seizure or killing of livestock during armed conflict have repeatedly devastated pastoral communities whose survival depends almost entirely on animal husbandry. During the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, numerous rural communities experienced the destruction of homes, farms, livestock, and agricultural infrastructure as part of campaigns aimed at forcibly displacing civilian populations. These historical examples demonstrate that the deliberate destruction of livestock, agricultural resources, and civilian means of subsistence.

The systematic destruction of livestock by Pakistan's invading military in the Republic of Balochistan 6 July, 2026 We have repeatedly stated that Pakistan's external occupying military bears direct responsibility for the insecurity and economic devastation in the Republic of Balochistan. For the past seventy-eight years, Pakistan's military has been involved in what we describe as a campaign of genocide against the people of Balochistan. During the military operation of 1973, nearly one hundred thousand livestock were looted or killed as a result of military bombardments in the Kohlu, Kahan, and Chamalang areas of the Marri highlands. Since Pakistan's occupation of Balochistan, its repression has extended beyond human lives. Today, neither our livestock nor our agricultural crops are safe. Pakistan's occupying military has deliberately targeted nomadic herders and farmers who depend on livestock for their survival, showing no hesitation in destroying their means of livelihood through what can only be described as economic devastation. On 3 June last month, the occupying Pakistani military carried out a drone strike on the home of an ordinary civilian, Muhammad Ibrahim, in Dasht Kambil, Mastung. Fortunately, no members of the family were physically injured. However, the attack killed more than 100 head of livestock belonging to the family, destroying their sole source of income and leaving them in severe economic hardship. With employment opportunities almost non-existent across much of Balochistan, a significant portion of the population depends on livestock herding and animal husbandry for survival. Many families spend their lives in remote mountainous regions alongside their animals. Tragically, these hardworking inhabitants of the Balochistan have repeatedly become direct victims of the occupying Pakistani military's violence and aggression. During military operations, their homes have been burned, men and women have been subjected to extrajudicial killings, many have been forcibly disappeared, and their only means of livelihood their livestock has been deliberately destroyed. Depriving already marginalized communities of their livestock or intentionally targeting them in this manner constitutes not only an attack on civilians but also a form of economic destruction that strips vulnerable families of their ability to survive. Comparable patterns have been documented in other armed conflicts around the world, where occupying or warring forces have targeted livestock, crops, or civilian livelihoods as part of broader military campaigns. In Sudan, particularly during the conflict in Darfur, numerous international investigations documented the burning of villages, destruction of crops, theft of livestock, and displacement of rural communities, leaving countless families without food or economic security. In Myanmar, military operations in ethnic minority regions have been accompanied by reports from international human rights organizations the destruction of villages, burning of food stocks, confiscation of livestock, and attacks on civilian livelihoods. In South Sudan, cattle raids and the deliberate seizure or killing of livestock during armed conflict have repeatedly devastated pastoral communities whose survival depends almost entirely on animal husbandry. During the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, numerous rural communities experienced the destruction of homes, farms, livestock, and agricultural infrastructure as part of campaigns aimed at forcibly displacing civilian populations. These historical examples demonstrate that the deliberate destruction of livestock, agricultural resources, and civilian means of subsistence.

Mir Yar Baloch

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Pune Metro has been the cause for the maximum disruption of traffic and causing traffic chaos across Pune for the past decade. Besides this is a government run by thugs and thieves along with corporate executives who have pouring concrete over the entire city as their only objective. Among other things. We are trying to knock some sense into the @punemetro3 , roads and projects department to be more environmentally conscious. It’s mostly a losing battle. Unfortunately large corporate interests such as Tata Group Larsen & Toubro KPMG India are all complicit in the denuding of the cities green cover. It’s astonishing that they as of yet don’t have the capacities in-house to simply help move ancient trees 🌳 in situ at the same location or another as the case may be - so that Pune doesn’t have to sacrifice its ancient trees. Their engineering under the mandate of the chump in chief Devendra Fadnavis and his sidekick Ajit Pawar is about laying to waste a living breathing city. Never about conservation. When they’re not defending criminals like Karads or Mundes this is what they do…. Turn Mumbai and Pune into a dust bowl desert. Some notes emergent out of yesterday’s meetings with the metro officials. 1. The metro work has been the cause of the maximum tree felling in the area through Mann Hinjewadi to Shivajinagar. It also is the cause of the maximum traffic jams across the city in the past decade. 2. ⁠There isn’t a single example of the Pune IT City Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. having replanted or transplanted a single tree 🌳 fully in all its glory along this route. Not one success story. 3. ⁠What has happened instead is that trees in their hundreds and at times without permission have been butchered by the Metro authorities under the offices of Bhanudas Mane. Sakalnagar has lost 40 trees. Ganeshkhind Road over a few hundred trees. Karve road countless old growth trees. Wherever the metro goes, it creates traffic jams and destroys the road side green cover. 4. ⁠These criminals led by the offices of the Municipal Commisioner and supported by the house of Tata’s @RNTata2000 are responsible for the destruction of the green cover of Ganeshkhind Road. Aundh Baner Balewadi Road until Hinjewadi. 5. ⁠Some sad transplantation techniques have been applied along with making rudimentary compensatory plantation attempts to come up with numbers to justify further tree felling along Ganeshkhind Road. The biomass lost hasn’t been replaced by the biomass newly planted (never was meant to be). What was meant to be was to screw Pune’s population out of its green cover and its ability to fight pollution and traffic caused by the increasing heat and dust from the metro work force which will justify anything in its means to keep destroying the city and its natural capital. 6. ⁠All the officials involved have been incriminated on several counts in the courts of law, especially at NGT and Supreme Court and High Court. A current contempt proceeding also remains open towards these matters. Yet, nothing is taken seriously by any of them. Tree felling permissions continue to be applied for, they continue to be given despite strong objections raised by all citizens groups and movements. It’s a KPMG & BJP modus operandi to destroy our environment. Today Ganeshkhind Road is a former shadow of itself. The Metro work looms over everything here. 7. ⁠Despite the road department, projects department and the Metro Transit functions having made commitments to transplant trees In situ with minimum damage at the same locations preferably. Some or the other excuse is always given and not a single example of a successful transplantation of huge ancient trees along the roads exist. What does exist is gerrymandering of the records and data to keep showing trees as of lesser age, lesser dimensions, lesser numbers than what is actually reflective of reality on the ground. Continued 1/2

Pune Metro has been the cause for the maximum disruption of traffic and causing traffic chaos across Pune for the past decade. Besides this is a government run by thugs and thieves along with corporate executives who have pouring concrete over the entire city as their only objective. Among other things. We are trying to knock some sense into the @punemetro3 , roads and projects department to be more environmentally conscious. It’s mostly a losing battle. Unfortunately large corporate interests such as Tata Group Larsen & Toubro KPMG India are all complicit in the denuding of the cities green cover. It’s astonishing that they as of yet don’t have the capacities in-house to simply help move ancient trees 🌳 in situ at the same location or another as the case may be - so that Pune doesn’t have to sacrifice its ancient trees. Their engineering under the mandate of the chump in chief Devendra Fadnavis and his sidekick Ajit Pawar is about laying to waste a living breathing city. Never about conservation. When they’re not defending criminals like Karads or Mundes this is what they do…. Turn Mumbai and Pune into a dust bowl desert. Some notes emergent out of yesterday’s meetings with the metro officials. 1. The metro work has been the cause of the maximum tree felling in the area through Mann Hinjewadi to Shivajinagar. It also is the cause of the maximum traffic jams across the city in the past decade. 2. ⁠There isn’t a single example of the Pune IT City Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. having replanted or transplanted a single tree 🌳 fully in all its glory along this route. Not one success story. 3. ⁠What has happened instead is that trees in their hundreds and at times without permission have been butchered by the Metro authorities under the offices of Bhanudas Mane. Sakalnagar has lost 40 trees. Ganeshkhind Road over a few hundred trees. Karve road countless old growth trees. Wherever the metro goes, it creates traffic jams and destroys the road side green cover. 4. ⁠These criminals led by the offices of the Municipal Commisioner and supported by the house of Tata’s @RNTata2000 are responsible for the destruction of the green cover of Ganeshkhind Road. Aundh Baner Balewadi Road until Hinjewadi. 5. ⁠Some sad transplantation techniques have been applied along with making rudimentary compensatory plantation attempts to come up with numbers to justify further tree felling along Ganeshkhind Road. The biomass lost hasn’t been replaced by the biomass newly planted (never was meant to be). What was meant to be was to screw Pune’s population out of its green cover and its ability to fight pollution and traffic caused by the increasing heat and dust from the metro work force which will justify anything in its means to keep destroying the city and its natural capital. 6. ⁠All the officials involved have been incriminated on several counts in the courts of law, especially at NGT and Supreme Court and High Court. A current contempt proceeding also remains open towards these matters. Yet, nothing is taken seriously by any of them. Tree felling permissions continue to be applied for, they continue to be given despite strong objections raised by all citizens groups and movements. It’s a KPMG & BJP modus operandi to destroy our environment. Today Ganeshkhind Road is a former shadow of itself. The Metro work looms over everything here. 7. ⁠Despite the road department, projects department and the Metro Transit functions having made commitments to transplant trees In situ with minimum damage at the same locations preferably. Some or the other excuse is always given and not a single example of a successful transplantation of huge ancient trees along the roads exist. What does exist is gerrymandering of the records and data to keep showing trees as of lesser age, lesser dimensions, lesser numbers than what is actually reflective of reality on the ground. Continued 1/2

ameet singh

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$Renewables are the key to preventing resource scarcity, argue European leaders, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, whose bestselling book Abundance became one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2025 and launched a political movement dedicated to what Klein calls “a politics of plenty.” The logic is straightforward and appealing. Solar panel costs have fallen more than 90% since 2010. Wind power costs have dropped by 70%. Battery storage prices have collapsed. If governments would simply clear the regulatory obstacles to building solar farms, wind turbines, and transmission lines, the abundance argument goes, clean energy would flow so abundantly that fossil fuel dependence would become a choice rather than a necessity. “The miracles of solar and wind and battery power,” Klein told the Long Now Foundation, “have given us the only shot we have to avoid catastrophic climate change.” But if renewables could prevent resource scarcity, then the world would not be in the midst of what the International Energy Agency’s Executive Director Fatih Birol called “the greatest global energy security challenge in history,” with global supply losses now totaling 12 million barrels per day, compared to about 5 million during each of the 1973 and 1979 crises. The United Kingdom is receiving its last shipment of jet fuel from the Middle East with nothing behind it. Australia saw over 500 gas stations run dry. And South Korea is considering driving restrictions for the first time since 1991. “In April,” warned Birol, “there is nothing.” It is true that solar and batteries have made enormous progress. Solar electricity costs roughly 3 to 5 cents per kilowatt-hour at the point of generation, cheaper than any fossil fuel in most locations. Battery costs have fallen below $115 per kilowatt-hour. China produces more solar panels than the rest of the world combined. But the world has installed more than 1,600 gigawatts of solar capacity and over 1,000 gigawatts of wind, and still we are in crisis. Global green energy investment was $2.3 trillion in 2025 alone. And yet when Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, none of that capacity mattered, because solar panels do not produce jet fuel, diesel, ammonia, or the petrochemical feedstocks that underpin modern civilization. Electricity accounts for roughly 20% of final energy consumption worldwide. The other 80%, the part that moves ships, flies planes, heats buildings, and makes fertilizer, runs overwhelmingly on oil and gas. Solar and wind cannot substitute for these fuels at any price, because the energy density of liquid hydrocarbons exceeds batteries by a factor of 40 to 80 by weight. Klein and Thompson, to their credit, also support some forms of nuclear power. Abundance opens with a vision of cities powered by “clean (nuclear) and renewable (wind and solar) energy sources.” They lament America’s nuclear stagnation compared to France’s successful buildout. Klein has said that he supports advancing nuclear power alongside renewables. But, the new nuclear power plants that Klein and Thompson support do not exist. The “small modular reactors” that populate the abundance fantasy have not produced a single commercial kilowatt-hour of electricity. NuScale, the most advanced American SMR developer, canceled its flagship project in 2023 after costs doubled. No SMR has received a commercial operating license anywhere in the world. The first commercially operating SMR, if all goes well, may produce power in the early 2030s, but SMR developers have for years said that their reactors are just a few years away. Scaling to a meaningful share of global energy supply would take decades, as opposed to building conventional nuclear plants, which Japan and China have shown they can build in just two years, so long as they are standardized and the same construction crews are used. Democrats, progressives, environmental groups, and left-wing parties across Europe diverted hundreds of billions of dollars over the last two decades from developing the new oil and gas production, pipelines, refineries, and LNG terminals needed to make energy cheap and abundant. California’s aggressive climate mandates drove residential electricity prices to 34 cents per kilowatt-hour, nearly double the national average, while the state simultaneously blocked new natural gas infrastructure. And global investment in oil and gas exploration and production peaked at roughly $780 billion in 2014 and fell to approximately $350 billion by 2020, a decline driven by deliberate policy choices to restrict fossil fuel development. The European Union’s Green Deal, America’s Inflation Reduction Act, and climate policies across the developed world channeled subsidies toward solar and wind while imposing carbon taxes, windfall levies, and permitting restrictions on fossil fuel projects. The UK’s Energy Profits Levy, introduced in 2022, discouraged investment in the North Sea at precisely the moment when more domestic production was needed. The UK Labor government then banned new exploration licenses in November 2025. Germany’s Energiewende spent over €500 billion on renewables while shutting down its nuclear plants, leaving the country dependent on Russian gas and then, after the Ukraine war, on LNG that must now compete with Asian buyers for cargoes that can no longer transit Hormuz. And the UK has lost a third of its refineries in the last 18 months, meaning that even if crude oil arrived tomorrow, the country lacks the capacity to refine it into the jet fuel, diesel, and heating oil its citizens need. The only energy abundance solution that works at the scale of civilization right now is piped natural gas and oil. A pipeline delivers energy continuously, at near-zero marginal cost per unit delivered, with no exposure to shipping chokepoints, insurance markets, or geopolitical disruption. A ton of natural gas moved through a pipeline costs a fraction of what the same gas costs when liquefied, shipped by tanker across an ocean, and regasified at a terminal. The logical endpoint is a world powered by natural gas delivered through continental pipeline networks, eventually transitioning to hydrogen produced from natural gas and nuclear power. America built pipelines while Europe and Asia built LNG dependency. Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline, which has ramped from 770,000 barrels per day to 2.9 million since the war began, is the emergency proof of concept. If the Gulf states had built sufficient pipeline capacity to bypass Hormuz before the war, the crisis would be a fraction of its current severity. So why do so many on the Left continue to preach renewables as the solution to a crisis that renewables manifestly cannot solve?... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning investigative reporting, read the rest of the article, and watch the rest of the video!$

Renewables are the key to preventing resource scarcity, argue European leaders, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, whose bestselling book Abundance became one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2025 and launched a political movement dedicated to what Klein calls “a politics of plenty.” The logic is straightforward and appealing. Solar panel costs have fallen more than 90% since 2010. Wind power costs have dropped by 70%. Battery storage prices have collapsed. If governments would simply clear the regulatory obstacles to building solar farms, wind turbines, and transmission lines, the abundance argument goes, clean energy would flow so abundantly that fossil fuel dependence would become a choice rather than a necessity. “The miracles of solar and wind and battery power,” Klein told the Long Now Foundation, “have given us the only shot we have to avoid catastrophic climate change.” But if renewables could prevent resource scarcity, then the world would not be in the midst of what the International Energy Agency’s Executive Director Fatih Birol called “the greatest global energy security challenge in history,” with global supply losses now totaling 12 million barrels per day, compared to about 5 million during each of the 1973 and 1979 crises. The United Kingdom is receiving its last shipment of jet fuel from the Middle East with nothing behind it. Australia saw over 500 gas stations run dry. And South Korea is considering driving restrictions for the first time since 1991. “In April,” warned Birol, “there is nothing.” It is true that solar and batteries have made enormous progress. Solar electricity costs roughly 3 to 5 cents per kilowatt-hour at the point of generation, cheaper than any fossil fuel in most locations. Battery costs have fallen below $115 per kilowatt-hour. China produces more solar panels than the rest of the world combined. But the world has installed more than 1,600 gigawatts of solar capacity and over 1,000 gigawatts of wind, and still we are in crisis. Global green energy investment was $2.3 trillion in 2025 alone. And yet when Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, none of that capacity mattered, because solar panels do not produce jet fuel, diesel, ammonia, or the petrochemical feedstocks that underpin modern civilization. Electricity accounts for roughly 20% of final energy consumption worldwide. The other 80%, the part that moves ships, flies planes, heats buildings, and makes fertilizer, runs overwhelmingly on oil and gas. Solar and wind cannot substitute for these fuels at any price, because the energy density of liquid hydrocarbons exceeds batteries by a factor of 40 to 80 by weight. Klein and Thompson, to their credit, also support some forms of nuclear power. Abundance opens with a vision of cities powered by “clean (nuclear) and renewable (wind and solar) energy sources.” They lament America’s nuclear stagnation compared to France’s successful buildout. Klein has said that he supports advancing nuclear power alongside renewables. But, the new nuclear power plants that Klein and Thompson support do not exist. The “small modular reactors” that populate the abundance fantasy have not produced a single commercial kilowatt-hour of electricity. NuScale, the most advanced American SMR developer, canceled its flagship project in 2023 after costs doubled. No SMR has received a commercial operating license anywhere in the world. The first commercially operating SMR, if all goes well, may produce power in the early 2030s, but SMR developers have for years said that their reactors are just a few years away. Scaling to a meaningful share of global energy supply would take decades, as opposed to building conventional nuclear plants, which Japan and China have shown they can build in just two years, so long as they are standardized and the same construction crews are used. Democrats, progressives, environmental groups, and left-wing parties across Europe diverted hundreds of billions of dollars over the last two decades from developing the new oil and gas production, pipelines, refineries, and LNG terminals needed to make energy cheap and abundant. California’s aggressive climate mandates drove residential electricity prices to 34 cents per kilowatt-hour, nearly double the national average, while the state simultaneously blocked new natural gas infrastructure. And global investment in oil and gas exploration and production peaked at roughly $780 billion in 2014 and fell to approximately $350 billion by 2020, a decline driven by deliberate policy choices to restrict fossil fuel development. The European Union’s Green Deal, America’s Inflation Reduction Act, and climate policies across the developed world channeled subsidies toward solar and wind while imposing carbon taxes, windfall levies, and permitting restrictions on fossil fuel projects. The UK’s Energy Profits Levy, introduced in 2022, discouraged investment in the North Sea at precisely the moment when more domestic production was needed. The UK Labor government then banned new exploration licenses in November 2025. Germany’s Energiewende spent over €500 billion on renewables while shutting down its nuclear plants, leaving the country dependent on Russian gas and then, after the Ukraine war, on LNG that must now compete with Asian buyers for cargoes that can no longer transit Hormuz. And the UK has lost a third of its refineries in the last 18 months, meaning that even if crude oil arrived tomorrow, the country lacks the capacity to refine it into the jet fuel, diesel, and heating oil its citizens need. The only energy abundance solution that works at the scale of civilization right now is piped natural gas and oil. A pipeline delivers energy continuously, at near-zero marginal cost per unit delivered, with no exposure to shipping chokepoints, insurance markets, or geopolitical disruption. A ton of natural gas moved through a pipeline costs a fraction of what the same gas costs when liquefied, shipped by tanker across an ocean, and regasified at a terminal. The logical endpoint is a world powered by natural gas delivered through continental pipeline networks, eventually transitioning to hydrogen produced from natural gas and nuclear power. America built pipelines while Europe and Asia built LNG dependency. Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline, which has ramped from 770,000 barrels per day to 2.9 million since the war began, is the emergency proof of concept. If the Gulf states had built sufficient pipeline capacity to bypass Hormuz before the war, the crisis would be a fraction of its current severity. So why do so many on the Left continue to preach renewables as the solution to a crisis that renewables manifestly cannot solve?... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning investigative reporting, read the rest of the article, and watch the rest of the video!

Michael Shellenberger

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.World Health Organization (WHO) and partners went to Khan Younis yesterday to assess the health facilities there. The team described the destruction as "disproportionate to anything one can imagine". No building or road is intact, there is only rubble and dirt. Hostilities in the vicinity of a WHO warehouse have left it destroyed. Attacks and hostilities have left Nasser Medical Complex, Al-Amal and Al-Khair hospitals non-functional. These facilities have no oxygen supply, water, electricity or sewage system. The team saw that the Nasser Medical Complex warehouse - which supplies many hospitals in the south - was burning, and severely damaged. It is estimated that fire has destroyed the majority of supplies, including a substantial amount of essential medicines and medical and trauma supplies provided by WHO and partners. Until recently, Nasser was the backbone of the health system in the south of #Gaza. Al-Amal was one of the few hospitals offering services to mothers and children. Now they are mostly rubble. Hospital assets and equipment have been destroyed. Specialized medical devices, CT scanners, oxygen plants, generators and solar panels need to be assessed to determine if they can still function, once spare parts and engineering services become available. The team also visited Jordanian Field Hospital, which is minimally operational and receiving a limited number of patients, mostly walk-ins, and a few trauma patients. The once robust health system in Gaza is broken. WHO and partners stand ready to support reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts, but we need a ceasefire. Nothing else can bring a lasting and humane outcome.

.World Health Organization (WHO) and partners went to Khan Younis yesterday to assess the health facilities there. The team described the destruction as "disproportionate to anything one can imagine". No building or road is intact, there is only rubble and dirt. Hostilities in the vicinity of a WHO warehouse have left it destroyed. Attacks and hostilities have left Nasser Medical Complex, Al-Amal and Al-Khair hospitals non-functional. These facilities have no oxygen supply, water, electricity or sewage system. The team saw that the Nasser Medical Complex warehouse - which supplies many hospitals in the south - was burning, and severely damaged. It is estimated that fire has destroyed the majority of supplies, including a substantial amount of essential medicines and medical and trauma supplies provided by WHO and partners. Until recently, Nasser was the backbone of the health system in the south of #Gaza. Al-Amal was one of the few hospitals offering services to mothers and children. Now they are mostly rubble. Hospital assets and equipment have been destroyed. Specialized medical devices, CT scanners, oxygen plants, generators and solar panels need to be assessed to determine if they can still function, once spare parts and engineering services become available. The team also visited Jordanian Field Hospital, which is minimally operational and receiving a limited number of patients, mostly walk-ins, and a few trauma patients. The once robust health system in Gaza is broken. WHO and partners stand ready to support reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts, but we need a ceasefire. Nothing else can bring a lasting and humane outcome.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

600,050 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

This is again a project of an unfathomable scale that's just been completed in China and barely anyone has heard of it in the rest of the world China has just finished constructing a continuous 3,046-kilometer (1,892-mile) green barrier - made of plants and trees - completely encircling the Taklamakan Desert, the world's second-largest shifting sand desert which is about the size of Germany (!). To put this in perspective, this is like building a living wall from Paris to Istanbul, or from Los Angeles to Chicago – except they built it in one of the world's most inhospitable environments. They spent about 40 years building this "green wall". The final 285 kilometers was completed in 2024 on November 28. They built the "wall" with desert-hardy plants like Populus euphratica (desert poplar), Haloxylon (saxaul), and Tamarix (salt cedar), along with innovative sand-control engineering and solar panel installations. The objective of the project is to contain the desert's expansion and to protect surrounding agricultural areas and cities from sandstorms. Before this project, many towns in the region had to be relocated multiple times due to encroaching sand. For instance, the town of Qira in Xinjiang had to move three times in its history, with sand dunes once approaching as close as 1.5 kilometers from the town center. This is easily one of human history's most ambitious and grandest ecological engineering projects. It's insane when you think about it: completely containing a desert the size of Germany! And it's also insane how little attention this has received globally: sadly we've apparently lost the capacity to be impressed by such a project, let alone have the boldness of vision to conceive of one ourselves. All resulting in the fact that whilst China is out there completing 40-year missions to tame entire deserts, we can barely fix potholes in our roads.

This is again a project of an unfathomable scale that's just been completed in China and barely anyone has heard of it in the rest of the world China has just finished constructing a continuous 3,046-kilometer (1,892-mile) green barrier - made of plants and trees - completely encircling the Taklamakan Desert, the world's second-largest shifting sand desert which is about the size of Germany (!). To put this in perspective, this is like building a living wall from Paris to Istanbul, or from Los Angeles to Chicago – except they built it in one of the world's most inhospitable environments. They spent about 40 years building this "green wall". The final 285 kilometers was completed in 2024 on November 28. They built the "wall" with desert-hardy plants like Populus euphratica (desert poplar), Haloxylon (saxaul), and Tamarix (salt cedar), along with innovative sand-control engineering and solar panel installations. The objective of the project is to contain the desert's expansion and to protect surrounding agricultural areas and cities from sandstorms. Before this project, many towns in the region had to be relocated multiple times due to encroaching sand. For instance, the town of Qira in Xinjiang had to move three times in its history, with sand dunes once approaching as close as 1.5 kilometers from the town center. This is easily one of human history's most ambitious and grandest ecological engineering projects. It's insane when you think about it: completely containing a desert the size of Germany! And it's also insane how little attention this has received globally: sadly we've apparently lost the capacity to be impressed by such a project, let alone have the boldness of vision to conceive of one ourselves. All resulting in the fact that whilst China is out there completing 40-year missions to tame entire deserts, we can barely fix potholes in our roads.

Arnaud Bertrand

610,221 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Elon Musk has been saying the same thing for years. Humanity is still underestimating solar energy. Not underestimating it slightly. Fundamentally misunderstanding what it is. Musk: “What would the Earth be without the sun? The Earth would be a frozen dark ice ball at roughly three degrees above absolute zero.” Three degrees above absolute zero. No light. No liquid water. No life. Not a worse version of Earth. A dead rock drifting through nothing. That is the default state of this planet without a single energy source. Everything else is commentary. The sun is not one option on a menu of power generation. It is the only reason biology exists here at all. Musk: “Because of the sun, we are at a quite a nice temperature, quite pleasant. Sort of roughly 300 degrees above absolute zero.” A 297-degree window between civilization and extinction. Every ecosystem, every economy, every human body operates inside that margin. The entire project of life fits between those numbers. And somehow the species looked at the source of all of it and decided it was a secondary energy option. Musk: “The sun powers, almost the entire ecosystem is solar-powered.” Every fossil fuel on Earth is stored solar energy. Oil is ancient sunlight captured by organisms, compressed by geology, buried for millions of years. Drilling for it is harvesting the sun’s output with a 300-million-year delay and a catastrophic loss in efficiency. The original source is still running. It will run for another five billion years. It delivers more energy to Earth’s surface in one hour than humanity consumes in an entire year. One hour versus one year. That is the ratio the world is ignoring. The argument against solar was never physics. It was cost, storage, and scale. Those are engineering problems. Engineering problems get solved. They always do. The compute demands of the next decade alone will require energy production at a scale fossil fuels physically cannot reach. The intelligence explosion does not run on oil. It runs on electricity. The cheapest and most abundant source of electricity is already overhead. It has been overhead for 4.6 billion years. We do not need to discover a new energy source. We need to stop ignoring the one that powers everything we have ever built. The star is right there. The only question left is how fast we build the infrastructure to capture it.

Elon Musk has been saying the same thing for years. Humanity is still underestimating solar energy. Not underestimating it slightly. Fundamentally misunderstanding what it is. Musk: “What would the Earth be without the sun? The Earth would be a frozen dark ice ball at roughly three degrees above absolute zero.” Three degrees above absolute zero. No light. No liquid water. No life. Not a worse version of Earth. A dead rock drifting through nothing. That is the default state of this planet without a single energy source. Everything else is commentary. The sun is not one option on a menu of power generation. It is the only reason biology exists here at all. Musk: “Because of the sun, we are at a quite a nice temperature, quite pleasant. Sort of roughly 300 degrees above absolute zero.” A 297-degree window between civilization and extinction. Every ecosystem, every economy, every human body operates inside that margin. The entire project of life fits between those numbers. And somehow the species looked at the source of all of it and decided it was a secondary energy option. Musk: “The sun powers, almost the entire ecosystem is solar-powered.” Every fossil fuel on Earth is stored solar energy. Oil is ancient sunlight captured by organisms, compressed by geology, buried for millions of years. Drilling for it is harvesting the sun’s output with a 300-million-year delay and a catastrophic loss in efficiency. The original source is still running. It will run for another five billion years. It delivers more energy to Earth’s surface in one hour than humanity consumes in an entire year. One hour versus one year. That is the ratio the world is ignoring. The argument against solar was never physics. It was cost, storage, and scale. Those are engineering problems. Engineering problems get solved. They always do. The compute demands of the next decade alone will require energy production at a scale fossil fuels physically cannot reach. The intelligence explosion does not run on oil. It runs on electricity. The cheapest and most abundant source of electricity is already overhead. It has been overhead for 4.6 billion years. We do not need to discover a new energy source. We need to stop ignoring the one that powers everything we have ever built. The star is right there. The only question left is how fast we build the infrastructure to capture it.

Dustin

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10 Shocking Stories the Media Buried Today #10 - Bombshell autopsy study proves COVID vaccines are causing large numbers of deaths. Powerful interests CENSORED this study TWICE, but now it has been peer-reviewed and published for the world to read. Here's what the study found: • 73.9% of the deaths (240 of 325) were DIRECTLY linked to vaccination, with physicians confirming the vaccine as a direct or significant contributor to death. • Of the COVID vaccine-related deaths, sudden cardiac arrest (died suddenly) was the leading cause of death (35% of cases). • COVID vaccine-related deaths occurred rapidly, averaging 14.3 days post-vaccination, with the majority occurring within a week. • The study has officially been republished after passing peer review in the journal Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law. • The study indicates the COVID jabs “must undergo an immediate Class I recall by the FDA to protect public safety.” “I have now published the largest autopsy study ever in that circumstance where someone dies [suddenly after the vaccine], and they undergo an autopsy. And the answer is 73.9% of the time, it's directly due to the vaccine if they've taken it,” reported Dr. Peter McCullough. “The next athlete who has a cardiac arrest, the next actor or actress that has a stroke, or the next loved one that suddenly develops a heart attack or a cardiac problem out of the blue, it is likely due to the vaccine.” Follow Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH®, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, and McCullough Foundation for more details on this study and breaking news about the COVID-19 injections. (See 9 More Revealing Stories Below)

10 Shocking Stories the Media Buried Today #10 - Bombshell autopsy study proves COVID vaccines are causing large numbers of deaths. Powerful interests CENSORED this study TWICE, but now it has been peer-reviewed and published for the world to read. Here's what the study found: • 73.9% of the deaths (240 of 325) were DIRECTLY linked to vaccination, with physicians confirming the vaccine as a direct or significant contributor to death. • Of the COVID vaccine-related deaths, sudden cardiac arrest (died suddenly) was the leading cause of death (35% of cases). • COVID vaccine-related deaths occurred rapidly, averaging 14.3 days post-vaccination, with the majority occurring within a week. • The study has officially been republished after passing peer review in the journal Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law. • The study indicates the COVID jabs “must undergo an immediate Class I recall by the FDA to protect public safety.” “I have now published the largest autopsy study ever in that circumstance where someone dies [suddenly after the vaccine], and they undergo an autopsy. And the answer is 73.9% of the time, it's directly due to the vaccine if they've taken it,” reported Dr. Peter McCullough. “The next athlete who has a cardiac arrest, the next actor or actress that has a stroke, or the next loved one that suddenly develops a heart attack or a cardiac problem out of the blue, it is likely due to the vaccine.” Follow Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH®, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, and McCullough Foundation for more details on this study and breaking news about the COVID-19 injections. (See 9 More Revealing Stories Below)

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

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Arterial drainage maintenance works on the River Morningstar at Athlacca, Co. Limerick. These works were completed by the Office of Public Works (OPW) during the period November 2025 to January 2026. I visited the site last week when the machines had already left the site. However, I have been provided with photos showing the works underway. Significant areas of riparian woodland have been removed, and alluvial woodland was also cleared from islands within the river. There is evidence of substantial silt mobilisation and in-stream disturbance. The riverbanks have been destabilised as a result of the removal of trees and other vegetation. Although silt fences are now present, they did not prevent fine sediment and wet soil from entering the channel during the work. Machines tracked instream during the salmonid close season. This damage will affect the river for years to come, and a permanent loss of riparian woodland has occurred. The removal of woodland set back from the riverbank extends well beyond what would be considered to be river maintenance works. The River Morningstar is an important salmonid nursery and spawning tributary of the River Maigue. The lower reaches of the River Maigue form part of the Lower River Shannon Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and the River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries Special Protection Area (SPA). Works like these are completed under the Arterial Drainage Act (1945). They are supposed to protect against flooding, but in reality, they have the opposite effect. By draining water off farmland too quickly, river works like this increase flood risk in downstream urban areas. This work was completed to protect wet farmland in a natural floodplain. We do need flood mitigation measures - but they need to be effective, sustainable, and based on evidence. In most cases that means slowing the flow of water through natural flood management techniques and restoring floodplains and wetlands to absorb excess water rather than pushing it downstream. We need to reform the Arterial Drainage Act (1945) and recognise the vital role that floodplains, alluvial woodlands and wetlands play in flood management and mitigation. Instead of fighting against nature, we should be working with it to ensure communities are truly protected in the long term. A healthy, functioning river catchment benefits everyone - not just wildlife, but the people who live alongside it too.

Arterial drainage maintenance works on the River Morningstar at Athlacca, Co. Limerick. These works were completed by the Office of Public Works (OPW) during the period November 2025 to January 2026. I visited the site last week when the machines had already left the site. However, I have been provided with photos showing the works underway. Significant areas of riparian woodland have been removed, and alluvial woodland was also cleared from islands within the river. There is evidence of substantial silt mobilisation and in-stream disturbance. The riverbanks have been destabilised as a result of the removal of trees and other vegetation. Although silt fences are now present, they did not prevent fine sediment and wet soil from entering the channel during the work. Machines tracked instream during the salmonid close season. This damage will affect the river for years to come, and a permanent loss of riparian woodland has occurred. The removal of woodland set back from the riverbank extends well beyond what would be considered to be river maintenance works. The River Morningstar is an important salmonid nursery and spawning tributary of the River Maigue. The lower reaches of the River Maigue form part of the Lower River Shannon Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and the River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries Special Protection Area (SPA). Works like these are completed under the Arterial Drainage Act (1945). They are supposed to protect against flooding, but in reality, they have the opposite effect. By draining water off farmland too quickly, river works like this increase flood risk in downstream urban areas. This work was completed to protect wet farmland in a natural floodplain. We do need flood mitigation measures - but they need to be effective, sustainable, and based on evidence. In most cases that means slowing the flow of water through natural flood management techniques and restoring floodplains and wetlands to absorb excess water rather than pushing it downstream. We need to reform the Arterial Drainage Act (1945) and recognise the vital role that floodplains, alluvial woodlands and wetlands play in flood management and mitigation. Instead of fighting against nature, we should be working with it to ensure communities are truly protected in the long term. A healthy, functioning river catchment benefits everyone - not just wildlife, but the people who live alongside it too.

Ecofact

204,438 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

The CIA and DARPA have been heavily involved in the research and development of mind control technology and has been a subject of interest, controversy, and secrecy since the mid-20th century. The CIA's MKULTRA program, which began in the 1950s, is perhaps the most well-known initiative in this field. This program involved extensive research into behavioral modification, including the use of drugs, hypnosis, and other methods to influence human behavior. Although primarily focused on chemical and biological agents, it laid the groundwork for later technological explorations. Project Pandora was funded by the CIA. This project in the 1960s looked into the effects of microwave beams on the brain, aiming to use such technologies for behavior and mood manipulation. This was part of early research into what would later be considered "non-lethal" weapons. Radio Frequency Energy and Microwave Technology has been studied and researched into how radio frequency energy could interact with the human brain has been documented. Projects like Pandora aimed to understand how microwaves could transmit signals to influence behavior or induce specific emotional states. Voice to Skull (V2K), also known as microwave auditory effect, involves sending sound directly into someone's head without the use of speakers. There have been claims and some research suggesting its use in psychological operations or in influencing behavior, though much of this remains speculative or classified. Heterodyning and Electromagnetic Technologies are methods involve the modulation of electromagnetic waves to interact with the brain's electrical activity. Research into these areas has been aimed at both therapeutic uses and potentially more invasive applications like mind control. Psychotronic technology is often associated with the concept of using electromagnetic fields or radiation to affect mental processes, psychotronic research has been noted in various contexts, including in Russian studies on psychotronic warfare. This term, however, sometimes borders on the speculative or pseudoscientific, with limited verifiable research in mainstream academic settings. Harvard and Yale have been involved in various psychological and neuroscience research projects, direct public evidence linking them to specific mind control research funded by CIA or DARPA is less clear. However, both universities have extensive research in neuropsychology and cognitive sciences, which could indirectly contribute to understanding how such technologies might work. Universities like Stanford, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon have engaged in research that touches on brain-computer interfaces, neurostimulation, and cognitive enhancement, areas that could theoretically overlap with mind control technologies. For instance, DARPA has funded research at these institutions for projects related to brain-computer interfaces, though the applications are often framed for medical or enhancing human performance rather than control. The military interest in these technologies often centers on weaponization, psychological operations, or enhancing soldier performance through cognitive augmentation. The use for inducing particular behaviors or emotions, especially in scenarios like false flag operations, could definitely be a possibility, but something that will never be admitted. This consists of the manipulation of individuals or groups to perform acts that benefit a hidden agenda unwillingly or unknowingly. Mind control technology, especially agencies like the CIA and DARPA, are shrouded in secrecy, with much of the research declassified or discussed in the public domain only after significant time has passed or in very general terms. While there's a clear interest in using technology to influence people's emotions and inducing behaviors for operations or nefarious purposes, it remains largely speculative or cloaked in national security classification.

The CIA and DARPA have been heavily involved in the research and development of mind control technology and has been a subject of interest, controversy, and secrecy since the mid-20th century. The CIA's MKULTRA program, which began in the 1950s, is perhaps the most well-known initiative in this field. This program involved extensive research into behavioral modification, including the use of drugs, hypnosis, and other methods to influence human behavior. Although primarily focused on chemical and biological agents, it laid the groundwork for later technological explorations. Project Pandora was funded by the CIA. This project in the 1960s looked into the effects of microwave beams on the brain, aiming to use such technologies for behavior and mood manipulation. This was part of early research into what would later be considered "non-lethal" weapons. Radio Frequency Energy and Microwave Technology has been studied and researched into how radio frequency energy could interact with the human brain has been documented. Projects like Pandora aimed to understand how microwaves could transmit signals to influence behavior or induce specific emotional states. Voice to Skull (V2K), also known as microwave auditory effect, involves sending sound directly into someone's head without the use of speakers. There have been claims and some research suggesting its use in psychological operations or in influencing behavior, though much of this remains speculative or classified. Heterodyning and Electromagnetic Technologies are methods involve the modulation of electromagnetic waves to interact with the brain's electrical activity. Research into these areas has been aimed at both therapeutic uses and potentially more invasive applications like mind control. Psychotronic technology is often associated with the concept of using electromagnetic fields or radiation to affect mental processes, psychotronic research has been noted in various contexts, including in Russian studies on psychotronic warfare. This term, however, sometimes borders on the speculative or pseudoscientific, with limited verifiable research in mainstream academic settings. Harvard and Yale have been involved in various psychological and neuroscience research projects, direct public evidence linking them to specific mind control research funded by CIA or DARPA is less clear. However, both universities have extensive research in neuropsychology and cognitive sciences, which could indirectly contribute to understanding how such technologies might work. Universities like Stanford, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon have engaged in research that touches on brain-computer interfaces, neurostimulation, and cognitive enhancement, areas that could theoretically overlap with mind control technologies. For instance, DARPA has funded research at these institutions for projects related to brain-computer interfaces, though the applications are often framed for medical or enhancing human performance rather than control. The military interest in these technologies often centers on weaponization, psychological operations, or enhancing soldier performance through cognitive augmentation. The use for inducing particular behaviors or emotions, especially in scenarios like false flag operations, could definitely be a possibility, but something that will never be admitted. This consists of the manipulation of individuals or groups to perform acts that benefit a hidden agenda unwillingly or unknowingly. Mind control technology, especially agencies like the CIA and DARPA, are shrouded in secrecy, with much of the research declassified or discussed in the public domain only after significant time has passed or in very general terms. While there's a clear interest in using technology to influence people's emotions and inducing behaviors for operations or nefarious purposes, it remains largely speculative or cloaked in national security classification.

The SCIF

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