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President Donald Trump will next week make an official visit to Poland. Whilst many in the Polish government (and the citizens) welcome this visit, the leaders of the European Union are getting worried that it may cause or encourage defiance towards the Brussels Bureaucrats. One EU diplomat is quoted as saying: “One cannot but feel a bit suspicious if it isn’t an attempt to break up European unity,” and this diplomat may, in fact, be quite right. Poland (along with Hungary and the Czech Republic) has been under sustained economic attack over their refusal to fulfill EU migrant quotas. The...

Let me just say this at the outset: Mildred Dresselhaus, who died in February at the age of 86, was an amazing woman. An accomplished physicist who won just about every scientific award short of the Nobel Prize, Dresselhaus was by all accounts a pioneer, patriot and great American. Nonetheless, I still find GE's commercial in her honor to be profoundly creepy. If you haven't seen the ad, which debuted at the Oscars and is omnipresent on MSNBC, you can find it on YouTube. It opens with a little girl unwrapping her birthday present. "A Millie Dresselhaus doll!" she exclaims...

The newly activated Democratic base -- the resistance! -- was tripping over itself for a fight. Their money arrived down South by the truckload. The Republican President's approval ratings are in the tank. And yet, another Election Day is gone, and Democrats are again asking where it all went wrong. By late Tuesday night, the answers were rolling in. Prominently mixed into this dog's breakfast of recriminations, mostly from the party's activist left, there is at least one recurring thread: Democrats do not have, either by omission or commission, a cohesive economic message. Operatives and consultants peddle tactics, electoral "paths"...

We are all familiar with the Clinton Foundation and the nefarious purposes for which it has been used; it was the bankroll for Hillary’s failed bid, it funds dangerous and divisive “protest” groups, it has been used for further enriching the Clinton family, and of course it has been used as a clearing house for washing money from Globalist enterprises. But Foundations are more common than is generally known, and it seems the Globalists have got their grubby hands into many of the leading politician’s pockets. Another failed Presidential candidate is Senator John McCain, and like Hillary, he also has...

Major oil companies like Exxon Mobil and BP Plc have thrown their support behind a carbon tax plan proposed by a group of elder Republican statesmen, according to an advertisement published in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The corporate support for the plan, which would impose a $40 tax on each ton of carbon dioxide produced, follows a decision by President Donald Trump to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, a global pact that fights climate change by slashing emissions from burning fossil fuels. The Climate Leadership Council proposal was co-authored by James Baker, secretary...

Record temperatures. Roads cracking and buckling. Planes that can't take off. Power knocked out. Wildfires raging. These are just some of the trying conditions currently roiling America's West Coast, which is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave. Nervous about how these disruptions will negatively impact the economy and even cost human life? You should be. And there's more to come. Changing weather patterns are the new normal, thanks to decades of trashing the environment and a refusal from many in the party currently controlling Washington, the Republicans -- and their corporate patrons -- to even acknowledge climate change as...

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull isn't known for being a comedian but he tried some daring Donald Trump material on a room full of journalists in Canberra last night. (snip) "It was beautiful. It was the most beautiful putting-me-at-ease ever," he jokes. He even does a Donald Trump impersonation. "The Donald and I, we are winning and winning in the polls. We are winning so much, we are winning, we are winning like we have never won before," he says. He also alludes to the probe into the Trump campaign's links with Russia, adding: "I have this Russian guy… Believe me,...

New data released by state regulators provide a detailed snapshot of California’s battle against global warming. We’ve crunched the numbers on specific sources of pollution, including planes, cars and trucks, and how the state’s pollution compares to the size of its economy. The state has been chipping away at greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. However, it’s going to need much deeper cuts to reach its goals. Emissions have been reduced by approximately 1% each year since 2006, when California enacted its landmark law setting a target for cutting pollution that causes climate change. But to reach a newer, more...

Europe’s newest “puppet on a string” has taken the time out of his busy schedule of ignoring the internal struggles of his nation to take a swipe at Donald Trump. In a response to trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, he called on anti-Trump “Americans” to help him “Make the planet Great Again. I believe the saying about getting your own house in order fits pretty well in this situation. In Paris, women are afraid to travel around the suburbs because of groups of Muslim males threatening, propositioning and in some cases assaulting them. The website thelocal.fr reported on...

BY DEVIN HENRY - 06/03/17 01:42 PM EDT 1,524 France Continues to Rip US Over Climate Deal France Continues to Rip US Over Climate Deal Inform 00:2300:54 Autoplay: On | Off President Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement this week sent shockwaves through global diplomacy. Half a dozen world leaders lambasted the Thursday announcement, which Trump said was meant to protect American businesses from the “unfair” terms of the climate accord negotiated in 2015. Former diplomats and experts warned that the U.S.'s disengagement on climate could be a defining moment for a Trump...

The leaders of France, Germany and Italy have banded together to tell Donald Trump that there will be zero negotiation on the Paris Climate Accord as a show of unity and “strength”. But the sad fact is, that even if they agreed to negotiate, the Accord has no substance and therefore it would be impossible to negotiate anyway. This is all part of a larger game plan to distance European nations from the US because the European Union is looking to create a full army and nuclear capabilities (this is not just since Trump came into power, it has been...

Major U.S. corporations and leading business figures are raising an eleventh-hour appeal to President Donald Trump, urging him to not pull the country out of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. ....

President Trump failed to commit to remaining within the Paris climate agreement during a two-day meeting with world leaders that ended here Saturday, but he tweeted that he was still considering it and would announce a final decision “next week.” In a final communique, the Group of Seven industrialized countries said that the United States “is not in a position to join the consensus.” The other six members reaffirmed their commitment to swiftly implement the 2015 accord to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Today is Teary Solidarity Day in the UK. Flowers, candles, and teddy bears are accumulating in their appointed places. Photos of slain children are being displayed on television and in the newspapers, and weepy citizens are lamenting their tragic loss. New hashtags proliferate on social media. And politicians recycle their tired clichés about standing together and not letting the terrorists divide us and etc blah yak. And things continue the same, in Britain and throughout the Multicultural West. Our English correspondent Paul Weston has a few choice words to say about last night’s Islamic terrorist attack in Manchester, and the...

No more petrol or diesel cars, buses, or trucks will be sold anywhere in the world within eight years. The entire market for land transport will switch to electrification, leading to a collapse of oil prices and the demise of the petroleum industry as we have known it for a century. This is the futuristic forecast by Stanford University economist Tony Seba. His report, with the deceptively bland title Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030, has gone viral in green circles and is causing spasms of anxiety in the established industries. Seba’s premise is that people will stop driving altogether. They will switch...

If it seems like governments across the Western world are engaged in a frantic effort to force as many immigrants from less developed countries into American and European cities as possible, it’s because they are. This is not a humanitarian effort; it is not an economic model to ensure that national economies maintain their current GDPs. The truth is far more sinister. Why is the question never asked – if we take millions and millions of migrants/refugees out of Syria (the Middle East and Africa, too), and as has been suggested, to carry this policy and process on indefinitely, who...

A high school in North Carolina has collected all of the yearbooks that were distributed to students due to some “inappropriate” comments, including President Trump’s (in)famous phrase “Build That Wall.” The News & Observer reports the Trump quote made by a Richmond Early College High School senior was “slammed on social media by some students and others who called it racist and hurtful to classmates.” Thankfully for the school, only a smattering of the books had been given out before the “offensive” statements were noticed by Principal Tonya Waddell. The district did not provide any other examples of what was...

If you're sniffling and sneezing a lot more lately, you're hardly alone. Climate change is making seasonal allergies worse, an expert says. "With the combination of increased temperature and carbon dioxide, we are seeing a dramatic change, and allergy sufferers can probably feel that change," said Dr. Richard Weber, president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. "We are experiencing longer allergy seasons, earlier onset and there is just more pollen in the air," said Weber, who's also an allergist at National Jewish Health in Denver. About 40 million Americans have seasonal allergies -- also known as hay...

African-American, Caribbean-American and Hispanic communities are typically located miles from South Florida beaches where climate change is most visible — but people who live in those areas are profoundly vulnerable to the effects, political leaders and climate science experts said Wednesday. And, panelists at a Fort Lauderdale conference said, there’s a growing awareness in minority communities of the implications of climate change. The environmental movement was long seen as the province of “white tree huggers,” said Caroline Lewis, director of the CLEO Institute. But that is changing, said Lewis, who is Caribbean-American. “Here in southeast Florida, it is almost flipping,”...

It wasn’t a Cinco de Mayo party. It had no sombreros or tacos, as far as anyone knows. Yet the University of Chicago’s Phi Gamma Delta, known casually as FIJI, has nonetheless been reported for the “bias incident” of throwing a party where attendees wore construction outfits. Relevant to know: Its fraternity house has been “under renovation and construction for two years.” But activists don’t care about context. If the left-wing arbiters of cultural appropriation get their way, FIJI’s members could face disciplinary action. The Chicago Maroon reports that the party was originally scheduled for May 5, but its start...