There is a choice before us, this future, or one of prosperity through the economic development of the Moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt. Choose wisely.

Thanks to socialism, the average Zimbabwean became a trillionaire before @elonmusk 💪

Japan has decided to invest over $65 billion in US-lead SMR projects. They will invest $40 billion in GE Vernova and Hitachi (BWRX-300), and up to $25 billion in NuScale. Article link in reply. A bit of a shame that no money is invested in non-water SMRs or smaller LWR SMRs. The 2nd to last paragraph of the article seems to sugget that the US and Japan are giving up on dominating the international large reactor market. Instead, they will focus on SMRs. Quote: "Notably, 90% of large-scale nuclear reactors started in the past decade worldwide are Chinese or Russian. The U.S. and Japan plan to counterattack in terms of manpower and technology through joint investments in next-generation SMRs."

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Spotted in Kingsbury, New York, another stack of broken panels, sitting out in the open next to a solar complex. When panels are broken in this way, lead, silver, cadmium, tin, and zinc leach out of them onto the soil below. They also drop microplastics, glass shards (pictured below), and PFAS (forever chemicals). Since the complexes are installed with out-of-state, and as we saw in Western New York this week, out-of-country labor, the workers are not concerned with environmental contamination at the worksite. There is no regulatory body monitoring the installation of these solar complexes in Upstate New York. It's a free-for-all, equipped with green energy subsidies, credits, and foreign corporations. This is what it gets you. The destruction of our rural way of life in real-time while panels poison prime farmland or animal habitat. The power doesn't stay local (if it's even tied-in at all). Property values surrounding the complex go down. Taxes go up to make-up for the hundreds of acres taken out of the property tax roll. This must end.

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No wonder they are having problems with incoming kids.

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Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

Looking forward to this.

Je vais démonter le plus grand mythe sur la pauvreté en Afrique. On vous répète que c’est une question de mentalité. On vous répète que c’est la faute d'un ennemi étranger qui pille les ressources. C'est faux. Les Africains sont pauvres pour une seule raison : leurs pays ont massivement adopté le socialisme, l’économie planifiée et le dirigisme d’État. Le socialisme n'a jamais fonctionné. Nulle part. Il détruit l'incitation, l'innovation et l'investissement. Les chiffres bruts. - La Corée du Sud : Dans les années 50, elle était plus pauvre que de nombreux pays africains. Aujourd'hui : 36 000 $ de PIB par habitant. Le Nord socialiste ? Il stagne à 1 000 $. La différence ? Le capitalisme libéral et la propriété privée. - Singapour : Indépendant en 1965. Analphabétisme fort, zéro ressource naturelle. Aujourd'hui : 90 000 $. La recette ? Basses taxes, ouverture au commerce, État minimal. - Les Émirats arabes unis : Indépendants en 1971. Économie multipliée par 200 depuis leur virage vers une économie de marché ouverte. - L'Afrique subsaharienne : Elle a misé sur la planification et les nationalisations post-indépendance. Résultat : un PIB par habitant bloqué autour de 1 500 $. La planification étatique ne crée pas de la richesse. Elle l'étouffe. Prenez le Venezuela. L'un des pays les plus riches d'Amérique latine dans les années 80. Aujourd'hui : l'économie s'est contractée de 80 %, des millions de personnes ont fui, et 75 % de la population survit dans l'extrême pauvreté. Heureusement, quand on change le logiciel, la donne change. Le Botswana a embrassé le capitalisme et la règle de droit en 1966 : il est passé d'un des pays les plus pauvres du monde à l'un des plus riches d'Afrique. L'Éthiopie s'ouvre au libéralisme : Ethiopian Airlines devient un géant mondial, transporte 17 millions de passagers et génère 7 milliards de dollars de revenus. Le développement n'a pas de secret. L'État ne doit faire QUE le régalien : justice, police, défense, infrastructures de base. Quand un État devient obèse et se mêle de l'économie, tout s'effondre. Regardez la France. 57 % du PIB en dépenses publiques. Un record de taxes mondial. Le résultat ? L'école décline, les hôpitaux sont sous tension, la justice est engorgée. L'État est trop occupé à créer des normes, des taxes et des redistributions pour remplir ses missions essentielles. C'est le serpent qui se mord la queue dans les pays pauvres : un État obnubilé par le contrôle (réglementations, corruption) étouffe le marché au lieu de faire respecter les contrats. Il n'y a pas de recette magique. Laissez l'État au régalien. Laissez les impôts bas. Laissez les gens bosser, échanger, créer, ouvrir des ateliers et innover. Le capitalisme libéral n'est pas parfait. C'est juste le seul système de l'histoire humaine qui sort massivement les peuples de la misère.

This is eye-opening. Even the weak Euro didn’t prevent the self-inflicted collapse of German industry. All the bad policies will one day be seen as the largest self-sabotage of an advanced economy ever. If the left can ruin Germany, imagine what they could do to your country.

The United Nations and Hamas: A Toxic Relationship? A close friend of mine from Gaza City, tortured nearly to death by Hamas, a well‑known activist against the group, and someone I helped evacuate during the war, was featured in the UN Human Rights Council’s report documenting Hamas’s abuses against Palestinian civilians: executions, torture, beatings, the misuse of medical facilities, and the terrorizing of women and children. When he met with the UN investigation team, one investigator was openly sympathetic to Hamas and the “resistance” narrative, signaling from the start that she doubted his testimony. He then spent five hours convincing the rest of the team that Hamas had, in fact, tortured him, despite extensive evidence of his injuries circulating on social media and a medical examination confirming blunt‑force trauma consistent with organized abuse, not random violence or Israeli bombardment. He even had to walk the investigators, including Ms. pro‑Hamas, through how his case fits into hundreds of others across Gaza, and how Hamas itself has filmed and publicly released its own executions, beatings, and torture to terrorize the population. Imagine that: Hamas documenting its own crimes on video, and supposedly serious investigators refusing to believe what is right in front of them. Imagine a human rights inquiry that includes someone openly aligned with the very group under investigation. It forces a hard question: why are parts of the UN system so compromised when it comes to Hamas that they cannot think beyond Israel’s actions long enough to examine the crimes of Palestinian actors, crimes that are equally harmful, shameful, and deserving of condemnation? And why are some so eager to believe Palestinians when the accusation is against Israel, yet so reluctant when the accusation is against Hamas, even when the evidence is overwhelming?

Modern climate politics starts the story in a cold trough, draws the rise upward, and ignores the older warm periods. The world warmed after the Little Ice Age. Big whoop. Full breakdown (& more) in today's article: electroverse.substack.com/p/…

I’m trying to understand the left’s argument supporting Karmelo Anthony. Karmelo followed Austin Metcalf into the Memorial high school tent. In high school athletics, this is a provocation. 15 times, Karmelo was asked to leave the tent. He didn’t. He then challenged Austin Metcalf to touch him and “find out.” Someone pushed Karmelo. Per video, maybe two minor pushes. Witnesses testify Austin Metcalf did NOT punch Karmelo or do anything that would cause serious bodily harm. So Karmelo had no reasonable belief—the standard for self-defense—that his life was in danger. Nonetheless, Karmelo immediately grabs a knife from his bag —which he was carrying illegally, no knives allowed on school property— and stabs Austin Metcalf in the heart, killing him. Karmelo then throws the knife and runs away. Moments later, after police arrest him and refer to him as the “alleged” suspect, Karmelo admits he killed Metcalf, saying: “I’m not alleged, I did it.” So— The jury was NOT “all white.” There were Asians, Hispanics & Arabs reportedly on the jury. Karmelo’s lawyer wasn’t a public defender, he was a private attorney. The left claims “racism!” But facts matter. There is ZERO evidence of racism. And all the facts demonstrate beyond the shadow of a doubt that Karmelo Anthony murdered Austin Metcalf. If you think Karmelo should walk free, YOU are the racist because you’re basing that on his skin color alone while ignoring the reality of the crime he committed.

The entire American Academic Industrial Complex is in need of dismantling.

Well deserved!

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Terrible

This cannot stand much longer.