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Fri, 15 May 2026 10:30:00 +0000 Europe's Green Deal Is Unraveling
Europe's Green Deal Is Unraveling
Europe's Green Deal Is Unraveling
Authored by Mohamed Moutii via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
Over the past decade, Europe has played a leading role in shaping global climate policy, highlighted by the launch of the European Green Deal in 2019—Ursula von der Leyen described it as a “man on the moon moment.” The initiative aims to make Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 while fostering innovation and strengthening its industrial base.
Yet several years later, the results are deeply disappointing. Instead of meeting its goals, the Green Deal is increasingly associated with higher energy costs, weakened competitiveness, and growing political backlash. It has deepened divisions within the EU, strained global relations, and increased pressure on households and businesses—raising serious doubts about its feasibility and long-term economic impact.
How Green Ideology Undermines Europe’s Economy
Europe’s economic stagnation points to a deeper structural problem in its energy and climate strategy—one closely tied to the direction set by the European Green Deal. Since its launch, competitiveness has eroded sharply, with soaring energy costs at its core. Electricity prices in Europe are now two to three times higher than in the United States and China, with taxes accounting for nearly a quarter of the total cost.
These outcomes largely stem from policy choices. The EU’s binding targets —net zero by 2050 and a 55-percent emissions reduction by 2030—have constrained energy supply, despite Europe accounting for only six percent of global emissions. At the same time, phasing out nuclear , restricting gas , and relying on intermittent renewables have weakened energy security and increased price volatility. For industry—where energy can account for up to 30 percent of total production costs —this, combined with carbon pricing , has become a critical constraint, driving firms to scale back, relocate, or shut down, accelerating deindustrialization across the continent.
The automotive industry clearly illustrates these pressures: representing over 7 percent of EU GDP and nearly 14 million jobs , the sector is under pressure from the 2035 ban on combustion engines , forcing a rapid shift to electric vehicles despite unresolved technological challenges and market constraints. As Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius warned, the policy risks driving the sector “full speed into a wall .” The consequences for the sector are already visible: declining production, mounting restructuring, and significant job losses—86,000 jobs since 2020, with up to 350,000 more at risk by 2035—while tightening regulations are set to reduce profits by seven to eight percent by 2030, pushing the sector toward losses and eroding Europe’s automotive leadership.
Agriculture has also become one of the Green Deal’s clearest casualties. Stricter rules on emissions, land use, pesticides, and fertilizers are raising costs and increasing yield volatility, hitting small farmers hardest and accelerating consolidation among large agribusinesses. Targets such as cutting pesticide use by 50 percent and expanding organic farming risk significant declines in output , threatening both rural livelihoods and food security. Rather than enabling farmers to innovate and improve productivity, these policies are constraining production—fueling widespread protests and weakening both competitiveness and sustainability.
Taken together, these pressures are not isolated—they reflect a broader economic burden. The European Commission estimates that the transition will require at least €260 billion in additional investment each year, with total costs reaching up to 12 percent of EU GDP —a burden that is increasingly difficult for the European economy to sustain.
The Green Deal’s Central Planning Problem
The economic strain is now translating into political backlash. In recent years, opposition to the European Green Deal has surged across the continent—from farmers and industrial groups to voters and political parties. The 2024 EU elections confirmed what was already clear: the once-dominant green consensus is fracturing. In response, Brussels has begun quietly rolling back key elements of the policy—weakening regulations, introducing loopholes, and even avoiding the term “Green Deal” itself. What was presented as a historic transformation is now unraveling.
This backlash reflects a deeper failure. Although the EU allocated $680 billion from 2021 to 2027—over a third of its budget—the Green Deal has achieved only modest environmental improvements, while imposing a heavy economic burden on households and businesses, who now face higher energy prices, taxes, and regulatory pressure.
The problem is not merely execution—it is structural. The Green Deal relies on centralized planning to manage a complex energy transition, even though policymakers lack the information and incentives to do so effectively. A major flaw is its rejection of technological neutrality. Leading manufacturers support a mix of electric, hybrid, hydrogen, and e-fuels to compete freely and allow efficient solutions to emerge, yet Brussels is enforcing a single pathway—effectively dictating which technologies survive and sidelining industry expertise.
In such a system, the outcomes are predictable: misallocation, distorted competition, and costly failures. These distortions are amplified by Europe’s restrictive regulatory environment, where internal barriers within the EU single market amount to a 44-percent tariff on goods and 110 percent on services, further constraining efficiency and innovation.
Germany illustrates these dynamics clearly. Long regarded as the leader of Europe’s green transition, its Energiewende $800 billion since 2002, yet delivered only modest results and left German industries paying up to five times more for electricity than American competitors. Much of the progress in renewables has been offset by the closure of zero-emission nuclear plants. Estimates suggest that maintaining nuclear capacity could have achieved a 73-percent emissions reduction at half the cost, highlighting the limits of ideologically driven policy.
The comparison with the United States is instructive. In the U.S., emissions have declined even as the economy more than doubled since 1990—driven largely by market forces, particularly the shift to cheaper natural gas and the expansion of renewables. This combination reduced emissions without imposing comparable costs. Europe, meanwhile, has pursued a more rigid, policy-driven approach that has raised prices and weakened growth.
The deeper lesson of the Green Deal is that climate policy cannot succeed when it abandons the principles that made Europe prosperous in the first place: free enterprise, open markets, private innovation, and limited government. Energy transitions cannot be engineered through centralized planning, subsidies, and political mandates. Innovation emerges from competition, experimentation, and market signals—not from governments dictating technological outcomes.
Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2026 - 06:30 Close Fri, 15 May 2026 09:45:00 +0000 "LoL420F*ckThePOLICE!": Millennial Uses Claude To Crack Crypto Wallet After Decade-Long Lockout
"LoL420F*ckThePOLICE!": Millennial Uses Claude To Crack Crypto Wallet After Decade-Long Lockout
A millennial used Anthropic's Claude to crack the password to his Bitcoin wallet after locking himself out for more than 11 years.
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"LoL420F*ckThePOLICE!": Millennial Uses Claude To Crack Crypto Wallet After Decade-Long Lockout
A millennial used Anthropic's Claude to crack the password to his Bitcoin wallet after locking himself out for more than 11 years.
Back in 2014, the X user "cprkrn ," who did not identify himself, explained that he had a crypto wallet on an old computer, got stoned one night, changed the password, and forgot it. He tried trillions of password guesses over the years with no luck.
"I tried like 7 trillion passwords lmfao. Found this old pneumonic a few weeks ago that ended up being the old password before I changed it. Thought I was screwed. Last-ditch effort dumped my whole college computer into Claude," cprkrn said.
He noted, "It found an OLD wallet file that the pneumonic successfully decrypted. Locked out 11+ years because I got stoned and changed the password."
The password turned out to be: lol420fuckthePOLICE!* ...
Here are the prompts in Claude that helped the man retrieve five lost Bitcoins…
And here is proof: the wallet went active on Wednesday after being dormant for a decade.
He added:
It was on Wednesday when we cited UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri, who provided color on what corporate America thinks about the chatbot race: “The survey continues to point to Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia as the key enterprise AI winners, but with Anthropic gaining ground.”
Read that report here .
Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2026 - 05:45 Close Fri, 15 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 German SPD Leader Faces Backlash After Claiming Migrants Burdening Welfare System Is A 'Right Wing Extremist' Lie
German SPD Leader Faces Backlash After Claiming Migrants Burdening Welfare System Is A 'Right Wing Extremist' Lie
German SPD Leader Faces Backlash After Claiming Migrants Burdening Welfare System Is A 'Right Wing Extremist' Lie
Via Remix News,
Labor Minister and Social Democratic Party (SPD) co-leader Bärbel Bas (SPD) says nobody is immigrating to Germany to take advantage of its social welfare system. However, she has received substantial pushback directed at her claim.
Bas’ comment came during a session of the Bundestag, when AfD MP René Springer asked Bas why she wasn’t cutting spending on immigration due to the current budget crisis, given the clear burden it is putting on social welfare, a situation that is making German taxpayers increasingly angry.
“Immigration into the welfare state threatens social cohesion! The fact is: More and more immigrants are pushing into our social welfare system – and are bringing the system to its limits and to the brink of collapse,” Junge Freiheit .
Bas, in return, has called this notion a lie from “right-wing extremists .”
Her goal, like many proponents of mass immigration is to link it to eliminating Germany’s skilled worker shortage.
“We have a skilled worker shortage in this country, which many companies are addressing by saying, ‘We need everyone who is here in the country and can work.'”
Mayer, and many others before him, shot her down.
“Every statistic refutes her. The immigration into Germany’s social systems is verifiably documented and one of the main reasons why the Federal Republic is heading toward state bankruptcy,” posted on X last week.
“There is less and less money for those in need because the wrong people, who have never paid into the system and never will, are being supported by us,”
Remix News has reported extensively on migrant abuse of the German welfare system. In November 2024, data from the federal government revealed that 64 percent of those receiving benefits have a migration background , despite making up a much smaller share of the overall German population. The cost of providing this social welfare rose to €12.2 billion the previous year, but in total, Germany spent nearly €50 billion on immigrants and protecting its border in 2023.
And yet, in August 2025, Germany’s Federal Employment Agency is actively promoting the country’s “citizen’s benefit” (Bürgergeld) to young migrants, with one critic noting: “Germany is so generous that it not only explains to immigrants from abroad how to get a job, but also how to make ends meet in Germany without one.”
That same month, two SPD chiefs in the German state of Thuringia broke with their party, calling for most non-EU migrants — including asylum seekers and recognized refugees — to receive social benefits only as interest-free loans , repayable once they find work, in an effort to break reliance on the state.
Currently, there is very little incentive for many to find work. And even those under deportation orders are being supported at taxpayer’s expense. And this is, of course, ignoring the other issue with massive crime from the migrant community .
Bas, however, has, in turn, said Springer is simply ignorant of the facts.
“You’ve probably never heard of it, because you’re probably not out and about in the country, visiting companies,”
Alice Weidel, the AfD parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, reacted to this with her own input:
“The SPD’s denial of reality is symptomatic of the federal government’s inability to act—a government that doesn’t want to change a thing. A political turnaround is only possible with the AfD!” she wrote on X .
According to Günter Krings (CDU), deputy leader of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, “there are too many people who come to us from other EU countries and only work a few hours a week, receiving social assistance for the rest of their time,” the MP told Bild, noting that the German social system is “a magnet for many EU foreigners.”
Former Bundestag member Joe Weingarten (SPD) described Bas’s statement as “a completely unrealistic assessment.” He added that she “is largely alone in this view, even within the SPD.” Weingarten also told The Pioneer, “Any responsible local politician could provide her with enough examples from their own city to prove the opposite.”
Read more here...
Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2026 - 05:00 Close Fri, 15 May 2026 08:15:00 +0000 "Pushed Into Poverty": Somalia’s Currency Crisis Leaves Traders Holding Worthless Cash
"Pushed Into Poverty": Somalia’s Currency Crisis Leaves Traders Holding Worthless Cash
"Pushed Into Poverty": Somalia’s Currency Crisis Leaves Traders Holding Worthless Cash
For decades, Muse Omar Jama made a living swapping currencies in Mogadishu’s Bakara market, where customers once lined up to trade Somali shillings for dollars and mobile money. Now his office sits mostly silent, and the safes around him are stuffed with cash no one wants, according to The Guardian .
The problem began when traders in Somalia stopped accepting worn-out shilling notes, saying the bills were too damaged to use. The boycott quickly spread to shops, buses, and businesses across the country, wiping out the value of savings held in local currency. Jama describes the shock bluntly: “It’s like we went bankrupt overnight.”
He can no longer exchange the piles of shillings stacked in his office for US dollars, and many former customers leave empty-handed. “I have to turn them away because my safes, shelves and tables are already full of Somali shillings,” he says.
Photo: The Guardian The Guardian writes that the crisis reflects Somalia’s long shift toward a dollar-based economy. The country hasn’t printed new banknotes since dictator Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991, when the central bank collapsed. Since then, US dollars, remittances sent through hawala networks, and mobile payments have increasingly replaced local currency.
The fallout has hit poor households hardest. Prices for essentials like food, medicine, and transport have risen sharply—one small bag of powdered milk reportedly doubled in price. Jama now walks five kilometers to work because buses no longer accept shillings.
Vegetable seller Asha Ali Ahmed says the change has also hurt small traders. Farmers in Afgoye now demand mobile payments, driving up produce costs in Mogadishu markets. With drought already devastating crops, many customers can no longer afford basic groceries.
According to the World Food Programme, about 6.5 million people in Somalia face severe hunger, while 2 million children under five are suffering acute malnutrition.
The federal government has declared refusing Somali shillings a crime, but many traders doubt it can enforce the order. Jama remains pessimistic: “Millions are going to suffer… More families will be pushed into poverty.”
Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2026 - 04:15 Close Fri, 15 May 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Britain Is Now Policing Thought Crime
Britain Is Now Policing Thought Crime
Britain Is Now Policing Thought Crime
Authored by Ciaran Kelly via DailySceptic.org,
If you want a snapshot of how far Britain has drifted from its liberal inheritance, consider the spectacle of a 78 year-old grandfather and retired pastor being warned by police that he must not preach from the Bible within a public area. His offence was not harassment, obstruction or intimidation. It was reciting and commentating on a verse many learned as children: “For God so loved the world…”
Clive Johnston’s alleged crime was breaching a ‘buffer zone’ around a hospital which houses a sexual health clinic where abortions are performed – despite the fact it was a Sunday afternoon when there were no scheduled abortions, and he made no reference whatsoever to abortion, nor motherhood, nor babies.
The state maintains he risked “influencing” anyone accessing the clinic in relation to abortion or anyone working there – a crime punishable by fine. He was prosecuted, and this week found guilty for doing so.
At this point, it is worth stating plainly: this is no longer about the cultural debate on abortion ethics.
It is about whether the state may decide which ideas are permissible in public space and which must be confined to the private sphere. In footage from the initial confrontation with police now circulating on X, the policeman literally tells Johnston his religious views should be expressed only in a “safe” place like a chaplaincy – not out on the street, where anyone passing by might hear.
Johnston’s case is the latest example in a pattern that has been building for years: the slow but unmistakable attempt to narrow the space in which Christians, in particular, are permitted to express their beliefs.
Take the school chaplain, Dr Bernard Randall, referred to Prevent for discussing Christian teaching during a school assembly. Or the numerous street preachers removed from public areas simply for speaking about Christ. Or the growing list of individuals questioned by police for nothing more than silent prayer within ‘buffer zones’ – cases in which no words were spoken, no signs displayed, no interactions initiated. The mere possibility of internal deviance in belief, it seems, is now sufficient to trigger official concern.
Abortion ‘buffer zones’ were introduced with a defensible aim: to protect women from harassment at a vulnerable moment. Few would quarrel with that objective (albeit one that was already adequately covered by pre-existing laws banning harassment). But like many well-intentioned measures, the law is being stretched beyond its original purpose. If “influence” can be inferred from the mere act of expressing Christian faith – irrespective of what is actually said, and whether it relates to abortion – then we are no longer policing conduct, but the hypothetical impact of ideas. To put it more bluntly, we are policing thought.
Once the elastic concept of “influence” becomes an offence, the implications are difficult to contain. If spoken words are suspect, what about the mere presence of someone with a certain belief? If preaching from the Bible is counted to be too influential, what about someone within the area wearing a Christian cross, or indeed a hijab? Could that deter a woman from an abortion because she knows of faith-based objections to abortion, and therefore be criminal? If influence is defined so subjectively, then almost any expression of belief becomes, in the eyes of someone, a potential offence.
The premise of the law banning “influence” rather than “coercion” or “harassment” is absurd. It suggests that we aren’t all influenced by one another on a daily basis. It isn’t immoral to change one’s mind on a topic – and indeed, it’s patronising to assume members of the public are so feeble-minded that to be in the presence of somebody with an alternative view would cause genuine harm.
Britain has developed a habit of elevating the avoidance of offence above the protection of liberty. From the proliferation of ‘non-crime hate incidents’ to the policing of speech on university campuses, the direction of travel has been unmistakable: fewer risks of discomfort at the cost of fewer freedoms.
Buffer zones are simply the latest and most disproportionate frontier. What is now being tested is not just the boundary of acceptable behaviour, but the boundary of acceptable belief. You need not share Clive Johnston’s theology to see the danger.
A country that tells its citizens their faith belongs only in designated “safe areas” is not protecting pluralism, but actively dismantling it.
Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2026 - 03:30 Close Fri, 15 May 2026 06:45:00 +0000 How Global Economic Power Shifted In The Last 10 Years
How Global Economic Power Shifted In The Last 10 Years
The global economic order has shifted dramatically over the last decade, with countries reshuffling positions amid inflation shocks, geopolitical tensions, pand
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How Global Economic Power Shifted In The Last 10 Years
The global economic order has shifted dramatically over the last decade, with countries reshuffling positions amid inflation shocks, geopolitical tensions, pandemic disruptions, and the rapid rise of AI-driven industries.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, compares the world’s 15 largest economies in 2016 and 2026 using IMF World Economic Outlook data, revealing which countries gained ground, which fell behind, and which surprised the most.
The U.S. remains the world’s largest economy at $32.4 trillion in 2026 forecasts, while China crossed the $20 trillion mark. India posted one of the fastest growth rates among major economies, while Japan became the only G20 economy to shrink over the decade.
The World’s Reordering of Major Economies
The period from 2016 to 2026 saw major reordering among the world’s top economies, with Mexico overtaking Spain, India overtaking France, and Russia leapfrogging both Brazil and Canada.
The table below lists the world’s 15 largest economies in both 2016 and 2026 based on their nominal GDP in billions of U.S. dollars.
One of the biggest shifts in the rankings came from India, whose economy expanded by 83% between 2016 and 2026. By the end of the period, India’s GDP had nearly caught up with both Japan and Germany.
Meanwhile, Germany overtook Japan to become the world’s third-largest economy, despite relatively modest growth compared to emerging markets.
Germany’s growth was modest compared to emerging markets like China, India, and Mexico, and was tempered in part by the economic slowdown it faced throughout the post-COVID era. However, Germany still grew faster than other major European Union economies like France (46%) and Italy (45%), though not Spain (68%).
The decade between 2016 and 2026 also saw the European Union lose its second-largest member economy, the United Kingdom, in 2020. The UK grew its GDP by 57% to reach $4.3 trillion by 2026.
Another Lost Decade for Japan
Every major world economy expanded over the last decade, with one notable exception. Japan’s GDP shrank from $5.1 trillion in 2016 to $4.4 trillion in 2026, reflecting a 14% contraction .
Following decades of rapid economic expansion in the late 20th century, Japan’s economy has struggled since the 1990s. The government has accumulated a debt-to-GDP ratio of over 200%, while major exporters in the auto and tech sectors have faced rising competition and trade tensions involving both the U.S. and China.
Perhaps Japan’s most pressing challenge is its demographic crisis. The country’s population was roughly 5 million larger in 2016 than in 2026, reflecting a decades-long fertility decline that threatens future growth prospects.
Russia’s Economic Expansion
Russia’s economy more than doubled in size between 2016 and 2026, growing by 107% to reach $2.7 trillion based on IMF forecasts. This expansion came after the Russian financial crisis of 2014–2016, which was driven largely by falling oil prices.
Russia’s growth, fueled heavily by oil and gas exports, came despite sanctions imposed after the country’s occupation of Crimea in 2014 and full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Even as the U.S. and European Union imposed sanctions, Russian energy exports were rerouted toward buyers in China and India, albeit at discounted prices.
How do these countries and economic powers compare with individual U.S. states? Find out with The 50 Largest Economies, Including U.S. States on Voronoi.
Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2026 - 02:45 Close Fri, 15 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000 The UN's Architecture To Annihilate The West
The UN's Architecture To Annihilate The West
The UN's Architecture To Annihilate The West
Authored by Amil Imani via AmericanThinker.com,
The United Nations functions as a predatory cartel dedicated to the systematic liquidation of national borders. Its agenda demands the total eradication of the nation-state to pave the way for a centralized, unelected global tyranny.
The 2018 Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration serves as the executioner’s blade for national sovereignty. This document transforms migration from a matter of domestic policy into a universal human right, stripping citizens of their power to decide who enters their lands. It creates a legal framework that criminalizes dissent against mass migration under the guise of hate speech suppression.
The UN mandate forces governments to promote migration and eliminate all forms of discrimination against migrants, a directive that effectively prioritizes foreign nationals over the rights and resources of their own taxpayers. This policy transforms the fundamental duty of the state from protecting its citizens to serving a globalist movement of people.
The UN Population Division openly plots the demographic overthrow of Western populations. Their Replacement Migration report outlines a cold, calculated strategy to offset declining birth rates in Europe and North America by importing tens of millions of foreign agents. This is the deliberate engineering of a new, rootless labor force designed to dissolve traditional cultural identities.
The UN identifies replacement migration as the sole, non-negotiable solution for aging Western nations, deliberately ignoring the preservation of indigenous cultures and social cohesion. This mechanism treats human populations as interchangeable economic units, engineering a demographic shift that renders traditional national identities obsolete. The UN’s own demographic projections provide the cold, mathematical blueprint for this replacement strategy.
The United Nations maintains a blood-sealed partnership with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to integrate Islamic blasphemy laws into Western legal systems. Through the Combatting Defamation of Religions resolutions, the UN enforces a pro-Islamic bias that shields religious doctrine from legitimate critique. This alliance facilitates the steady Islamization of the European sphere by granting special status to specific religious ideologies under the umbrella of international protection.
Why does Western secularism retreat before the advance of religious expansionism? within the UN to dictate absolute terms on migration and free speech, effectively extorting the international community. This alliance enforces a pro-Islamic bias that shields specific religious doctrines from critique while dismantling the secular foundations of Western nations. The formal cooperation records between the UN and the OIC serve as the public ledger for this strategic surrender.
The UN utilizes the Marrakesh Declaration and subsequent regional summits to bypass national legislatures entirely. This shadow-governance model empowers local municipalities to act as independent entities, funneling UN directives directly into city centers while ignoring federal law. This tactic creates Sanctuary Hubs that fracture the unity of the nation-state from within.
How does the UN fracture a nation from within? By funding local city councils to implement Integration Frameworks, the Machine creates a parallel legal reality where national border enforcement ceases to exist at the street level. This tactical subversion bypasses federal authority, empowering globalist-aligned city networks to operate as independent sanctuary hubs. The UN New Urban Agenda provides the explicit roadmap for this transition of power, detailing the erosion of national governance in favor of localized global control.
The UN Machine operates through a web of extortionate financial mechanisms. It funnels billions into NGOs and humanitarian fronts that facilitate the transit of migrants across sovereign borders. These organizations act as the logistics arm for the invasion, providing the maps, the legal aid, and the transport necessary to breach the defenses of the West.
Every refugee represents a calculated line item in a massive, globalist budget that extracts profit from the deliberate destabilization of stable societies. This predatory financial structure forces sovereign nations to fund their own destruction through mandatory contributions to agencies that actively bypass national immigration laws. The UN effectively turns the taxpayer into an unwitting financier of the very machine that dismantles their security and sovereignty.
Objective journalism dies under Objective 17 of the Global Compact for Migration. This provision demands that signatory nations sensitize and educate media professionals to promote migration as a positive force while cutting off public funding to media outlets that provide intolerance or xenophobia. In the UN’s vocabulary, intolerance equals any factual reporting on the social or economic costs of mass migration.
This directive establishes a state-sponsored propaganda machine that aggressively deplatforms critics while it rewards outlets that parrot the globalist narrative. By enforcing these standards, the UN ensures the total eradication of dissent, transforming independent journalism into a mouthpiece for borderless expansion.
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) actively re-engineers school curricula across the West to foster Global Citizenship. This program replaces national history and identity with a loyalty to globalist institutions. It frames the arrival of foreign populations not as a demographic shift, but as an inevitable and superior evolution of society, ensuring the youth remain compliant during the transition.
So what is the indoctrination involved here? UNESCO’s Global Citizenship Education (GCED) initiates a psychological re-engineering of the youth, targeting children as young as five to convince them that national loyalty remains a mere relic of a dead past. This program systematically replaces the concept of the sovereign citizen with a rootless global identity, ensuring the next generation views the dismantling of their own borders as a moral necessity.
The evidence sits in plain sight. The UN hides its war in the light of official documents, betting on the apathy of the masses. The borders fall. The cultures fade. The Machine remains.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.
Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2026 - 02:00 Close Fri, 15 May 2026 03:25:00 +0000 Depopulation Won't Save Us Or The Planet
Depopulation Won't Save Us Or The Planet
Depopulation Won't Save Us Or The Planet
Authored by Lipton Matthews via The Mises Institute,
In recent years, a strand of environmental thinking has emerged that places population at the center of ecological crises. Some activists, including figures associated with the Extinction Rebellion and the Stop Having Kids Movements Movement in the United Kingdom and the United States have expressed anti-natalist views, arguing that choosing not to have children is a meaningful response to climate change. The reasoning is lucid and, at first glance, convincing: fewer people should mean less consumption, lower emissions, and more space for the natural world to recover.
Yet this argument becomes less compelling when examined more carefully. Depopulation, on its own, is neither a sufficient nor a reliable solution to environmental problems. Once questions of timing, infrastructure, and land use are considered, the connection between population decline and environmental improvement appears far more uncertain.
The first issue is one of timing.
Climate change is seen as an urgent problem that must be addressed within the next few decades. Population decline, however, unfolds over a much longer horizon. Even if fertility rates were to fall sharply today, the total number of people would remain high for decades because of population momentum. Large existing generations will continue to live, consume, and emit throughout the period in which climate action is most critical.
For this reason, the impact of falling fertility on emissions is minimal within the relevant timeframe. Climate-economy modeling indicates that even substantial differences in long-term population size produce only very small differences in projected global temperatures. This conclusion is difficult to avoid. Demographic change happens too slowly to meaningfully influence climate outcomes in the near term. What ultimately matters is not population growth, but the speed at which economies innovate by developing technologies that reduce reliance on greenhouse gas emissions.
Furthermore, it is sometimes posited that countries experiencing population decline also see falling energy use. However, this relationship is often misunderstood. Declines in energy consumption are frequently linked to economic stagnation or contraction rather than to demographic change itself. When economies slow, industrial output falls, investment weakens, and consumption declines. These conditions can reduce total energy use, but they do so because of reduced economic activity, not simply because there are fewer people. In this sense, lower energy demand may reflect a slump rather than a structural environmental improvement.
At the same time, population decline can introduce inefficiencies that push in the opposite direction. As populations shrink, households tend to become smaller and buildings are used less intensively. A home that once accommodated a family may later be occupied by a single individual, yet it still requires heating, lighting, and maintenance at nearly the same level. This spreads energy use across fewer people, increasing consumption per person.
A similar pattern appears in infrastructure.
Transport systems, utilities, and public services are typically designed for larger populations. When the number of users falls, these systems rarely contract at the same pace. Instead, they continue operating below capacity, often with aging equipment that is not replaced quickly due to weaker economic incentives. Under these conditions, overall energy use may not decline as much as expected, and each remaining resident may account for a larger share of it.
Depopulation, therefore, does not automatically deliver greater efficiency and can, in some cases, entrench wasteful patterns of energy use.
The question of biodiversity introduces a further layer of complexity.
A common expectation is that when populations decline, land will be abandoned and nature will gradually reclaim it. However, evidence from Japan—one of the clearest examples of sustained depopulation—suggests that this outcome is far from automatic.
Across a wide range of species and ecosystems, biodiversity loss continues regardless of whether human populations are increasing or decreasing.
The crucial factor is land use.
In depopulating regions, farmland does not simply revert to forest or natural habitat. Some areas fall into disuse, but others are sold for development or reorganized into more intensive forms of agriculture. Urban land use often continues to expand even in areas where population is shrinking, while agricultural land declines without being replaced by ecologically-rich environments. These patterns interrupt the processes, such as natural succession and afforestation, that would otherwise support biodiversity recovery. Instead of a steady return to nature, landscapes become fragmented and unstable, limiting ecological regeneration.
This helps clarify an important point. Biodiversity does not recover simply because human numbers fall. It depends on how land is managed, how ecosystems are protected, and whether long-term ecological processes are allowed to take hold. Without deliberate intervention, depopulation alone may do little to reverse biodiversity loss.
Japan’s demographic experience reinforces this insight. As explored in Peter Matanle’s work on the “depopulation dividend,” population decline does not automatically produce environmental benefits. Outcomes depend on how societies respond to it. In Japan, rural depopulation has often led to the erosion of traditional land management practices that once sustained diverse ecosystems, while urban areas continue to concentrate economic activity and resource use. Environmental change, in this sense, is shaped less by the number of people than by the systems within which they live.
All of this points in the same direction. Depopulation may influence environmental pressures over very long periods, but it does not address their underlying causes. Climate change is driven primarily by energy systems and industrial activity, while biodiversity loss is shaped by land use and ecological management. Neither problem can be resolved simply by reducing the number of people.
The appeal of anti-natalist thinking lies in its simplicity. It offers a clear and individual response to a complex global issue. But that simplicity is misleading. Environmental challenges are structural, not merely demographic. Without changes to how energy is produced, how infrastructure is organized, and how land is used, a smaller population will not automatically result in a more sustainable world.
In the end, the central question is not how many people there are, but how societies choose to live. Depopulation, by itself, is too slow, too indirect, and too uncertain to serve as a meaningful solution to the environmental crises we face today.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.
Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2026 - 23:25 Close Fri, 15 May 2026 03:00:00 +0000 Unitree Unveils Real-Life Transformer Robot. Only Costs $650,000
Unitree Unveils Real-Life Transformer Robot. Only Costs $650,000
Chinese robotics firm Unitree, known for its robot dogs and humanoids, has unveiled a production-ready "manned mecha": a large robotic machine piloted by a human.
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Unitree Unveils Real-Life Transformer Robot. Only Costs $650,000
Chinese robotics firm Unitree, known for its robot dogs and humanoids, has unveiled a production-ready "manned mecha": a large robotic machine piloted by a human.
Unitree wrote on X that the manned mecha costs $650,000 and weighs as much as a car. The bipedal mecha is piloted by a human operator who sits in its belly.
The machine looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. And it tranforms into a giant robo-dog.
Chinese media outlet Global Times
"The application scenarios for Unitree's products are mainly aimed at changing the way we work. For example, our robots can be used in high-risk and harsh environments," said Huang Jiawei, a marketing staff member at Unitree.
Jiawei continued, "At this stage, our B2 and A2 quadruped robots are already being applied in consumer and inspection scenarios. Through the use of robots, we hope to improve work efficiency and optimize the way people work."
"The product is still in its first generation at this stage, and there is indeed a lot of room for imagination," he said.
We can use our imagination. This robot will eventually be dual-use and end up on a modern battlefield.
Tyler Durden Thu, 05/14/2026 - 23:00 Close Fri, 15 May 2026 02:35:00 +0000 Researchers Theorize That Our Brains Are Building The Universe
Researchers Theorize That Our Brains Are Building The Universe
Researchers Theorize That Our Brains Are Building The Universe
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
Developments in quantum physics and consciousness research are prompting scientists to reconsider the fundamental nature of reality.
Several recent discussions highlight theories proposing that conscious experience may play a far more fundamental role than previously thought — potentially generating space-time itself.
Popular Mechanics covered a provocative theory suggesting consciousness could be foundational.
The full piece explores a 2025 paper by Uppsala University professor of materials science Maria Strømme, published in AIP Advances. Her model proposes consciousness as a universal, omnipresent awareness serving as a foundational field from which physical reality emerges.
Strømme argues that “in the beginning, it was consciousness. Not individual minds, but something omnipresent, awareness itself. The universe—space, time, matter, stars, galaxies, our own sun, and distant worlds like Neptune—came later. Or rather, according to [this] controversial new theory, it came from that underlying form of awareness.”
The theory reinterprets the Big Bang not as the origin of matter but as the differentiation of a unified field of awareness into the structured world of space, time, and matter.
It draws on quantum field theory, emergence, symmetry breaking, and non-dual philosophy to suggest that the separation between mind and matter may not be fundamental.
New Scientist described a broader shift: “The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of science is under construction that centres conscious experience – and might unravel the universe’s biggest mysteries.”
University of Rochester physicist Adam Frank and collaborators argue that conscious experience is what is fundamentally real. Frank states: “I have no access to the world except through experience,” and describes the physicalist world as “an unexperienced and unexperienciable world. It is a very useful abstraction, but one that only comes after the actual world that scientists live and practise in.”
These discussions build on earlier explorations of consciousness potentially operating at the quantum level.
Research has examined whether the brain’s microtubules could harbor a “quantum heartbeat” tied to awareness.
Scientists are using terahertz waves to probe subtle vibrations in these cellular structures noninvasively.
A 2024 University of Maryland study showed that stabilizing microtubules in rats delayed the loss of consciousness under anesthesia, referencing the Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR theory.
In parallel, Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral has offered a perspective grounded in the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. He posits that alternate versions of individuals may exist across parallel universes, with every tiny quantum event potentially branching reality into different paths.
Vedral emphasizes that reality branches through ordinary interactions, not solely through human observation. He states that humans “do not magically create reality simply by observing it,” adding “consciousness is not special in the way many people believe.”
He clarifies: “Reality does not suddenly change because a human looked at something.” Instead, “any interaction at all can affect the outcome.” Vedral explained that “the universe does not wait for humans to notice something before making a decision. The interaction itself is what matters.”
He concludes that “people are part of a much larger system of interactions constantly shaping reality around them. The universe, in this view, is not centered on human consciousness. It is an endless web of collisions, particles and probabilities unfolding across countless possible outcomes.”
Adding an intriguing layer to this are these claims:
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…observed specific regions. This dynamic relationship between the observer and the system challenges traditional models by suggesting observation actively shapes quantum outcomes. If these simulated behaviors hold true on a larger scale, they could radically transform our understanding of consciousness and the underlying structure of reality. Exploring these highly responsive quantum systems opens up incredible possibilities for future technologies that might one day respond directly to conscious intent.
“If these simulated behaviors hold true on a larger scale, they could radically transform our understanding of consciousness and the underlying structure of reality.
Exploring these highly responsive quantum systems opens up incredible possibilities for future technologies that might one day respond directly to conscious intent.”
OK, this may not be exactly what is going on…
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This happens in:
quantum many-body systems
neural networks cellular automata condensed matter simulations self-organizing computational systems And sometimes those patterns become so complex they look almost intentional. But there is currently no verified evidence that CERN created a conscious simulation or discovered a “parallel universe.”
What is fascinating is this: Physics keeps finding that order naturally emerges from complexity. The deeper systems become… the more reality starts looking computational, geometric, and information-based. That’s why these stories spread so fast. They touch a real scientific mystery: At what point does pattern recognition become emergence? And how would we even recognize the difference?
These developments also connect to proposals about the structure of the universe itself. One model suggests the cosmos has seven dimensions in total.
As physicist Richard Pin?ák explained: “We experience three dimensions of space and one of time — four dimensions in total. Our model proposes that the universe actually has seven dimensions: the four we know, plus three tiny extra dimensions curled up so tightly that we cannot directly perceive them.”
The framework addresses issues such as the black hole information paradox through geometric effects in the hidden dimensions.
Together, the emerging picture points to a universe where consciousness, quantum interactions, extra dimensions, and possible parallel branches may intersect in ways that defy everyday intuition.
Whether future experiments confirm these connections or refine them remains an open question, but the conversation continues to evolve at the frontier of physics and neuroscience.
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