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Category Archives: Europe
Europe’s Wind Fantasy vs. Russian Energy Realpolitik
Dreams of powering huge electric power grids using nothing but wind and solar energy, have always been more fantasy than reality — although European politicians and pundits would never admit that. For decades, Germany’s leaders have pretended to base their … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Europe, Wind
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Annexation on the Nukes: A Deadly Cocktail
Putin chooses a queer tactic of desperation. First, annex territories that you do not control and never will. Then threaten to unleash a nuclear war if “your new territories” are threatened with attack. Peter Zeihan looks at which cities Putin … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Peter Zeihan, Russian Decline, Ukraine
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Russia Losing Konigsberg?
Russia’s brutal invasion and occupation of large parts of Ukraine has initiated a conflict that will last many years — and threatens to expand to several other European nations including members of NATO. Lithuania has infuriated Putin by placing Konigsberg … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Russia, Ukraine
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Novel Coronavirus Global Business Disruption
Graphic Look at Supply Line Disruptions China’s economic collapse … could push its Q1 GDP negative according to Goldman as the second largest world economy grinds to a halt… … will have an adverse impact on countless supply-chains, which in … Continue reading
Posted in China, Europe
Tagged China, coronavirus, Europe
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Why Europe Conquered the World: A Modest Booklist
It was in Europe — and the extensions of Europe, above all, America — that human beings first achieved per capita economic growth over a long period of time. In this way, European society eluded the “Malthusian trap,” enabling new … Continue reading
Global Innovation: Foundations and Futures
Turnover is common on the Bloomberg Innovation Index. The 2020 list is no exception, as nations are rising and falling in the rankings across the board. Who Will Lead in Innovation in 2030? China is catching up with the rest … Continue reading
A Key Ingredient of Europe’s Decline
We already know about the demographic meltdown of Europe. With fewer and fewer young people, Europe is slowly evolving into the world’s largest and most expensive retirement home. We already know about the flood of violent immigrants rushing to take … Continue reading
Selling the Rope to be Hanged By: Then and Now
This is a tale of two suicides — one averted in the 1980s, the other in progress with an uncertain fate. The subject of both suicides is the same: western civilisation. The means of both suicides is the same: selling … Continue reading
Posted in China, Europe, Russia
Tagged Euro-delusions
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Europe in the Middle: “Gotta Serve Somebody”
Europe is excessively dependent upon outsiders for its defence, for its energy, for its technology, and increasingly for its workforce. Without a change in direction, the “foundations of Europe’s society and its values will come under increasing strain, as relying … Continue reading
Sweden Kills its Own Elderly to Make Way for Violent and Hapless Immigrants
Sweden: No Place for Old Men or Old Women Sweden is importing violence, unemployment, and quasi-genocide. For ideological reasons, Sweden’s elite have opened the door to uneducated, unskilled immigrants from violent parts of the world. As a consequence, Sweden’s municipalities … Continue reading
Economic Freedom of the World and an Abundant Future
Nations that are economically free out-perform non-free nations in indicators of well-being Nations in the top quartile of economic freedom had an average per-capita GDP of $36,770 in 2017, compared to $6,140 for bottom quartile nations (PPP constant US$) (exhibit … Continue reading
Czech Republic Spreads Her Legs, China Can’t Get It Up
China badly wants to take the Czech Republic, and the Czech Republic wants to be taken. So what’s the problem? Czech President Milos Zeman has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping eight times — an unusual amount of face time … Continue reading
There Was Something Special About Europe
About 250 years ago, advanced human societies took a dramatic turn for the better. In terms of life expectancy at birth, GDP per capita, kilocalories per person per day, technological adeptness, and personal political freedoms, the human condition in most … Continue reading
Netherlands Terrorist Helps Elect New Eurosceptic Government
How the actions of two terrorist fools — one in the Netherlands, one in New Zealand — led to the overturning of power in the Dutch Senate. Game of Terror, Game of Thrones First the Christchurch, New Zealand, terror attack … Continue reading
Solution to Europocalypse: The Truman Show?
Europe is Dying A number of mortal blows have fallen on Europe over the past 100+ years, including World War I, World War II, the Communist blight of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union with its cold war and … Continue reading
Good News, Bad News
Good News: World Keeps Not Ending According to the loudest prognosticators of the past few centuries, the world should not exist. Our ancestors should have died in uncounted fiery religious conflagrations. The planet should have been destroyed by nuclear apocalypse, … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Demographics, Doom, Europe, Postmodernism, TEOTWAWKI
Tagged leftist idiocy
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US Prosperity: Europe is Poorer, But Switzerland is Better
… if you look at the U.S. average ($54,629), it obviously is higher than economic output in European nations. And if you prefer direct measures of living standards, then data on consumption from the OECD also shows that America is … Continue reading
The 3 Empires of the 21st Century
Just over 100 years ago at the dawn of the 20th century, the world was awash in empires. Once strong empires such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Tsarist Russian Empire, The British Empire, The German Empire, The … Continue reading
Posted in China, Empire, Europe, Peter Zeihan, Russia
Tagged China_Russia, Rise and Fall of Empire
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Green Energy is an Unimitigated Disaster
Germany, Australia, and Ontario — among other jurisdictions — made catastrophic errors in judgment when they committed their constituents to a dependency on unreliable, unaffordable, poor quality wind and solar energy. Now, these governments are beginning to pay the price … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Europe, Germany, Green Quagmire
Tagged Green Idiocy
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A Place Where Rich People Feel Safe
According to New World Wealth, a market research firm based in Johannesburg, South Africa, the number of millionaires moving to another country jumped 28 percent in 2016 from the previous year, reaching the highest level the firm has found in … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Europe
Tagged bric, Demographic Decline, Immigration
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War is Coming to Sweden Thanks to Swedish Government
… to accept there is a problem would mean accepting nearly 80 years of liberal thinking was wrong. … Multiculturalism doesn’t work …mass immigration does not lead to integration… Sweden has made a big mistake. Read more: Source Because Sweden … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Demographics, Europe, geopolitics, Government, Islam's Bloody Borders
Tagged Dangerous Child, Demographic Decline, Groupthink, Sweden
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Innovation, Productivity, and Enterprise: Wealth of Nations
Innovation Leads to Greater Productivity and Wealth Both innovation in new products and innovation in new processes tend to contribute to higher productivity for both individual firms — large and small — and for nations. “Disruptive innovation” contributes more than … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Economics, Europe, innovation, Technology, Wealth of Nations
Tagged economics
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“White Supremacism” Takes on an Odd Complexion
Playing the Victim Proves Impossible to Resist The list of “fake hate crimes” is growing ever longer. People of the third world are being victimised at record rates, if claims are to be believed. But are the claims believable? Only, … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks and crime, Coming Anarchy, Crime, Demographics, Europe, Fertility, Germany, Human Slavery, Islam's Bloody Borders, Propaganda, Racial Myths
Tagged Immigration, race and crime
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Destroying These Threats Before They Destroy the Human Future
The Three Faces of Challenge Three powerful forces seek to dominate — or conquer — today’s world. Each of the three should be considered deadly enemies to an abundant and expansive human future. The tactics and strategies used to meet … Continue reading
Posted in China, Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Disruptive Technologies, Empire, Europe, Future, geopolitics, Government, Groupthink, Human Slavery, Ideology, Idiocracy, innovation, Islam's Bloody Borders, Media
Tagged Disruptive Technologies, geopolitics, propaganda media
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China Turns to Ukraine, CEE, and Finland/Scandinavia to Bypass Russia
Despite China’s close relationship with Russia, Ukraine’s rival, China has purchased outright and licensed a number of Ukrainian aviation and naval platforms, such as the ex Varyag aircraft carrier, the Zubr hovercraft and the An-178. Antonov itself has also provided … Continue reading
Posted in China, Europe
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