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Record gas and electricity prices in Europe, record coal prices in China, multiyear-high gas prices in the United States and oil prices well above their real long-term average are all manifestations of the same global energy shortage. In the aftermath of the coronavirus recession, energy production has failed to keep up with rapid growth in consumption as energy producers struggle to raise output while demand has bounced back quickly. The business cycle downturn and slump in energy prices caused by the pandemic, and before that the U.S./China trade conflict, depressed investment throughout the energy sector in 2019/2020.

Down at the local pub, die-hard Brexiters will be raising a pint to news that the United Kingdom is eyeing the end of a European Union-inspired ban on selling products in only pounds and ounces. But many others view the move away from the world-standard metric system as pure rubbish. Since becoming prime minister, Boris Johnson has pledged to usher in an era of "tolerance towards traditional measurements." On Thursday, Brexit minister David Frost clarified what that means — giving shops and supermarkets the option to sell items labeled only in imperial units. Under the plan, market stalls and shops...

Boris Johnson is set to U-turn on visas for lorry drivers to allow 5,000 foreign hauliers into the UK after panic-buying gridlocked petrol stations across the country overnight. Motorists ignored Government pleas for calm as they jammed roads and police had to be called in to marshal drivers amid fears that fuel shortages could bring the economy to its knees. The Prime Minister is expected to buckle and grant visas for thousands of foreign drivers in a bid to tackle the shortages, while soldiers will also be drafted in to help at HGV testing sites to clear a backlog of...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Republicans while traveling abroad in the United Kingdom Thursday, saying that they are bad for America and members of a "cult." "I say to my Republican friends and I do have some," Pelosi said at an event in Cambridge, England, prompting laughter from the audience. "Take back your party. You’re the Grand Old Party of America, you’ve done wonderful things for our country. You now have been hijacked by a cult..."

The nation of Australia has been lighting up Google searches related to ‘New World Order‘, and for good reason, they have been announcing from the highest levels of their own government that they are using COVID-19 mandates to advance the….well, you know…New World Order. Their words, not mine. Oh yeah, almost forgot, they are joining something called the D10, a ten nation confederacy to advance the, you know, New World Order. Honestly, I don’t have to work all that hard at this anymore, they’re making it way too easy. “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw...

The emergency meeting of G7 nations on Tuesday – called by Boris Johnson as this year’s chair of the G7 – is in essence a gathering of the vanquished but faces a threefold agenda: how to ensure as many Afghans as possible can leave Kabul, and whether the US is prepared to stay beyond the original 31 August deadline for the withdrawal of all US forces; how a resettlement programme can be coordinated for the medium term; and finally, how to encourage the Taliban to form an inclusive government, including by threatening sanctions or withholding recognition. But each country will...

For weeks, the Biden loving media hyped the June 16 meeting between the United States President and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. It was supposed to be a chance for the United States to act “tough” with Russia since the media claimed that President Donald Trump was a Putin “puppet.” Of course, this charge was absurd since the entire “Russian collusion” narrative, peddled by the Democrats and the media, was fiction. In reality, President Trump was much tougher on Russia than the Obama-Biden administration. For example, in 2012, former President Obama infamously told then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he...

I think I can still hear them partying in the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin and his inner circle are toasting each other with shots of vodka and loud singing. I can’t understand Russian, but I recognize the tune – “Happy Days Are Here Again.” After the thrashing Putin gave to President Joe Biden at their “summit” meeting in Switzerland this week, the devilish former KGB operative has every reason to celebrate. Someone asked me on a scale of 1 to 10 what score I’d give to Biden for his G7 meeting in Britain and his one-on-one meeting with Putin in Geneva....

The White House boasted Thursday that President Joe Biden was the clear leader of the free world after his trip to Europe for the G7 Summit and meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin — even after trashing the Republican Party and supporters of former President Donald Trump. “I really do not believe that it is hyperbole to say that Joe Biden returns from this trip as the clear and the consensus leader of the free world,” said Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, in an on-the-record call with reporters. He also pointed Biden’s meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, who...

Voters have graded President Joe Biden’s first foreign trip with a shrug. In the first poll on Biden’s performance at the G-7 economic summit, the NATO meeting, and his one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Rasmussen Reports found that 44% rated it a success and 40% said it wasn’t. The survey, sponsored by the National Pulse, also found that people are split over his foreign policy. Some 44% called it fair to poor, while 42% said it’s good to excellent. And they’re even divided on how his foreign policy compares to that of former President Donald Trump. Asked if Biden’s...

While Kurt Schlichter points out that this is all you need to know about Critical Race Theory:Ashleigh-the-Lion Shackleford gives a lecture titled "All White People Are Racist" to some white people. *Paypal Me I would like to point out that it is also all you need to know about fashion. First of all, let me get this out of the way: this has NOTHING to do with Fat Shaming. In fact, after reading the Lion’s self-description…Hunter Ashleigh Shackelford (they/she) is a Black fat cultural producer, multidisciplinary artist, nonbinary shapeshifter, and data futurist based in Atlanta, Georgia, with roots in Richmond,...

The View’s Meghan McCain, who fashions herself as a political and foreign policy expert, called for Russia to be booted from the G7 over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imprisonment of a political dissident on Wednesday. There’s only one problem: the group of influential nations kicked Russia out seven years ago.

Chaos erupted Wednesday at the summit between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin as reporters from both countries pushed each other, yelled and talked over the world leaders’ remarks. Some reporters blocked the TV cameras while others yelled at each other while the two presidents made their opening statements, rendering the leaders’ words inaudible. Politico’s Anita Kumar, a pool reporter covering the Geneva summit, called the media scuffle “the most chaotic” event she’s seen in nine years of covering presidential events.

Joe Biden brought a set of cheat cards with him for his sitdown meeting with Vladimir Putin today. Because nothing exudes strength and confidence like a good set of cheat cards!

In a free market system, sellers compete by offering products of either a higher quality, or at a lower price. However, when sellers collude to sell their products all at a fixed price, consumers pay a higher price because there is no longer a need for competition. In the private sector, this is called a cartel. In the public sector, we call it a G7 summit. Joe Biden fancies himself something of a straight shooter, so why is he not shooting straight with Americans when it comes to the G7’s latest scheme for a global minimum corporate tax of 15...

Biden actually used a teleprompter a few moments again, during his press conference, to tell reporters about his meeting with Putin. Here’s a clip where you can see he’s clearly reading (teleprompter is hidden in the back): VIDEO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqfakrER2M&t=8s

On the defensive and appearing on edge after ceding the public relations advantage to Vladimir Putin in their historic summit in Geneva, President Biden lashed out at the American press at the end of a short, 33-minute briefing. Biden tried to wrap up his Q&A after fielding questions from just six journalists during an appearance that lasted around 30 minutes — about half the time that Putin spent during his own news conference earlier in Geneva, Switzerland. But other reporters kept peppering him with questions as he walked off stage, including CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, who shouted out about Putin, “Why...

Joe Biden's aides are preventing him from taking questions, according to CNN's chief national affairs correspondent, who claimed that the president's advisors are regularly 'screaming at him to stop'. Jeff Zeleny spoke on Wednesday after Biden's much-hyped meeting with Vladimir Putin in Russia. Biden angrily confronted Zeleny's CNN colleague Kaitlan Collins, asking her: 'What the hell?' when she questioned him about the summit. Biden later apologized, before boarding the plane to leave.

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin held two separate press conferences because the two live in parallel universes. Putin’s universes us one rooted in the reality of global power politics and confrontation, including on the personal level. He knows who he is, where he is, and what he wants to do – which is to restore the old Soviet Union and the KGB je worked for and loved. Joe Biden lives in a worked if favorite ice cream flavors and elder care in which the White House jas been transferred into the world’s largest nursing home. The man whose 1988 presidential...

If you have been following any of the G7 Summit happening in Cornwall, England, then you know the biggest story is the one the fake news media refuses to report. What’s that, you ask? It is the photographic proof that pretend president Joseph Robinette Biden is losing his mind literally and actually. So much so that his wife, pretend doctor Jill Biden, has to swoop in and rescue him as he starts to babble incoherently when asked questions. How bad is it? It’s 25th Amendment bad, that’s how bad it is. “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice:...