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While Europe freezes under net-zero dogma, Norway drills, profits, and keeps the lights on—funding EV virtue with oil and gas while the EU chooses ideology over arithmetic.While the rest of Europe shivers under the self-imposed austerity of net zero mandates, Norway in the frozen north is keeping the lights on and the bank vaults full as it avoids the “green” ideological quicksand that has defined the continent’s energy policy. Despite pressures to decarbonize, Norway has increased efforts to exploit oil and natural gas reserves. The crown jewel of this fossil fuel renaissance is the Johan Castberg field. Located in the...

For otherwise healthy plebs in the Roman world, survival depended on four Fs: farming (the sole source of food and money), fighting, family and friends. Everything else that made life worth living meant having some degree of political control over your own existence, which could be summed up in a fifth F: freedom, or political equality. But the elite had little time for such goodwill towards men. For the plebs, there was the rub. In the 20s BC Livy began writing a history of Rome from its foundation in 753 BC. It was first ruled by a series of seven...

Two people have reportedly been found dead in the mansion of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner, which the LAPD is reportedly investigating as a murder. Multiple law enforcement sources told NBCLA that the bodies of a 78-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman had allegedly been discovered inside the home, which is located in Los Angeles' Brentwood neighborhood, a haven for celebrities. Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department Robbery Homicide division were said to be on the case, and LAPD detectives reportedly told ABC7 said the deaths were being investigated as a homicide as a large number of officers were...

Paul Wiggin, the former Stanford and Cleveland Browns star who was on the losing end of "The Play" as the coach of star quarterback John Elway and the Cardinal, died Friday. He was 91. Wiggin's death was announced by the Browns, the Minnesota Vikings and the National Football Foundation. He was the fourth-oldest living NFF Hall of Famer. Wiggin was on the Stanford sideline in 1982 for "The Play" when California scored the winning touchdown in a 25-20 victory in the "Big Game" after Stanford's band prematurely took the field. It is considered by many the most incredible finish to...

Koshary – a spicy dish of lentils, rice and pasta available at countless Egyptian food stalls – won recognition as a cultural treasure from the UN’s cultural agency on Wednesday, as Cairo makes a broad push to promote its cultural and historical identity abroad. Egypt’s nomination of koshary for UNESCO’s “Intangible Cultural Heritage” list comes a little over a month after its opening of a sprawling new antiquities museum – another move officials hope will highlight the country’s rich history and lure more tourists.

One of the world's richest men has rewarded the hero who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach attackers by grabbing his gun. Naveed Akram, 24, and his father, 50, allegedly opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah event shortly before 7pm on Sunday, killing at least 15 innocent people and injuring a further 40. Father-of-two and fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified by relatives as the man seen fighting one of the terrorists in a video widely shared on social media. Shortly after the terror attack, Bill Ackman, a Jewish investment banker, worth more than...

A US Army sniper has been taken into custody in connection with the Brown University mass shooting. Erickson, originally from Wisconsin, was apprehended in connection with the Saturday shooting that left at least two dead and nine injured, according to the Washington Post. He was taken into police custody early Sunday morning at the Hampton Inn in Coventry, around 15 miles from Brown University campus in Providence after federal authorities received a tip from local police and used 'geolocation' to locate him. It was later revealed that Erickson was not a resident of Rhode Island or a student at the...

A year after Luke Littler became the youngest winner of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) World Darts Championship, 71-year-old Paul Lim on Dec 13 became the oldest winner of a match in the tournament’s history. Roared on by the usual raucous Alexandra Palace crowd in London, the Singaporean veteran stunned Dutch-born Swede Jeffrey de Graaf. The previous oldest player to win a round was Northern Ireland’s John MaGowan in 2008 when he was 67. Lim turns 72 in January. Said the Singaporean: “A moment like this has kept me going for all these years.

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This is a short video of a very fed-up Australian citizen who is sick to death of islam and multicultural bull crap. I have to warn you that there are some very nasty words but the guy is angry and if the other side shoots us, rapes us, murders us and robs is— you know what? They are going to hear a few choice words. Sticks and stones mate.

The White House is ringing in the holidays, unveiling on Monday its annual Christmas decor theme: “Home is Where the Heart is.” The decorations are an ode to the “enduring American spirit of generosity, patriotism and gratitude,” the White House said. Take a look at the White House as it is all dolled up for the holidays. Photos by The Hill’s Greg Nash.

Updated: 21 hours ago TRUMANN, Ark. (KAIT/Gray News) - A man in Arkansas was sentenced after authorities found 24 dead cats in his freezer. On Monday, Boddie E. Williams, 38, entered a negotiated guilty plea to one count of aggravated cruelty to a dog, cat or equine. He was sentenced to 36 months of probation, with 24 months of supervised probation. Boddie E. Williams, 38, entered a negotiated guilty plea to one count of aggravated cruelty to... Boddie E. Williams, 38, entered a negotiated guilty plea to one count of aggravated cruelty to a dog, cat or equine.(Source: Poinsett County...

The massive $1 billion (and growing) Minnesota welfare fraud by Somali refugees and the accompanying tired accusations of racism used to silence whistleblowers led me to think of my Greek immigrant family in Chicago. We’re not welfare cheaters hiding behind accusations of racism. Family ties were critically important and our clans, but not at the expense of the love we bore America. The City Journal broke the Minnesota fraud story wide open about the ties to terrorist groups, after Minnesota leftists like the fool Gov. Tim Walz suppressed reasonable inquiry. Minnesota conservatives screamed for years begging the media pay some...

Avalon Raceway Management on behalf of the Drew Family would like to update everyone on the unfortunate incident that occurred during the running of the Sprint Car C-Main on Friday December 12, 2025. The incident involved a part failure, with a sprint car wheel and tyre from the V34 entry of Brenten Farrer, entering the spectator compound in turn three of the venue. We ask that the privacy and health of those involved is everyone’s first thought. Most importantly all involved are in good health today and have been contacted via venue Management. One person involved, a long-standing and highly...

.... 1 January 1915 was a holiday for the mining community of Broken Hill. It was the height of the southern summer and about 1,200 men, women and children were looking forward to a picnic organised by the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows. They were to take a train the 15 or so miles from Broken Hill towards Silverton. Unbeknown to the miners and their families, two men had, for varying reasons, prepared an ambush. ..... AmbushAs the train, comprising forty open carriages, pulled up a hill two miles outside Broken Hill, it came into sight of the two men...

The Biden Presidential Library has recently suffered a series of setbacks caused by a lack of funding. The initial presidential library was envisioned to eclipse the Obama Presidential Library (aka Obama Death Star) however those plans have been scaled back significantly by the lack of donor largesse. Donations from persons pardoned in the last moments of his presidency have been severely curtailed when President Trump declared those autopen pardons null and void. Even with these setbacks, Slow Joe declared he will march forward with the project even though he will have to scale it back somewhat. The Biden Presidential Library...

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The hours-long suspension of CME Group's global futures trading platform on November 28 was not prompted by a cooling failure at a data center, as officially maintained, but by huge silver purchase orders from Chinese buyers, London metals trader Andrew Maguire tells this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program. The Chinese orders, Maguire says, broke the silver price suppression scheme and required official intervention to avoid a declaration of force majeure on the New York Commodities Exchange and an explosion of metals derivatives internationally, an outcome no one in authority...

Could someone explain to me, like I am 8, why we need data centers, centralized processing, and AI ? Why? Who decided?

In Slovenia, the ancient Pust festival happens each year before Easter to mark the end of winter. Locals wear masks and costumes to chase away winter and celebrate the coming of spring. Images of the festival captured by photographer Ciril Jazbec offer a glimpse into a ritual that has great significance for the community. The Little-Known Ancient Festival to Chase Away Winter | 3:10 BBC Global | 717K subscribers | 95,245 views | March 5, 2025