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Sometimes, there aren't such adherents to the religion of the Climate Cult that current events, security, and reason are able to overcome the strictures and deprivations that were previously imposed in the name of Gaia and all things Green.

Such is the case in Scandinavia, where the Norwegian government has made a couple of announcements that have people in Europe pretty excited, and given people in the United Kingdom one more reason to despise their Labour overlords the day before a nationwide local councils election.

The first big news out of Oslo was the announcement that the government was reopening three old oil and gas fields that had been closed since 1998.
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The fact that the Norwegians are drilling in the same seabed as the vaunted British North Sea oil industry used to - and were told there was 'none left' by none other than Minister Miliband - has not escaped notice.
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Miliband's nonsense about banning exploration and drilling licenses for lack of product is ringing especially hollow and creating a great deal of anger, as the Norwegian government had a second announcement to go along with the wells reopening that puts lie to everything Miliband has been claiming. The country is opening 70 new blocks of exploration, with some of those in the North Sea.

Climbed the ladder that others constructed for him
Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)
Tue May 5, 2026, 07:25 PM

Then pulled it up behind him.

A student group at Cornell University claims university president Michael Kotlikoff “hit us with his car” after a debate over Israel. Students for a Democratic Cornell call the incident a “violent response to student inquiry.”

It’s quite the story: The University refuses to allow open debate about Israel, and resorts to violence to silence dissent!

But video released by Cornell shows a different story: Students tried to stop Kotlikoff from leaving, and he tried, as slowly as possible, to exit.

Because he was in a car, that slow retreat was inherently dangerous to those trying to detain him, but Kotlikoff was still totally in the right.

There’s a legal principle in self-defense called the “duty to retreat.” If someone is 100 feet away from me and shouts, “I’m going to stab you,” I still probably shouldn’t shoot him. I should try to get away instead. In New York State, where Cornell is, that duty to retreat is actually written into law.

Notably, Kotlikoff was literally trying to retreat. ...

The Washington Free Beacon’s Ira Stoll reviews the 2026 Pulitizer Prize awarded to Saher Alghorra in breaking news photography. In the linked Free Beacon story Stoll reports that the Times is scrambling to defend the integrity of its Gaza-based photographer and his work after the press watchdog organization Honest Reporting accused him of “staged scenes” that were closely coordinated with Hamas.

Stoll’s backgrounder draws on the work of Honest Reporting criticizing Alghorra:

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The watchdog group Honest Reporting said the Alghorra Pulitzer is “a prize built on staged scenes, a manufactured ‘famine’ narrative, and intimate access to Hamas terrorists.”

Said Honest Reporting, “One of the winning photos shows 2‑year‑old Yazan Abu al‑Foul, turned by the NYT into the face of children ‘starving’ because of Israel. Yet the original wire copy notes that Yazan has four older siblings – none of whom appear in the Pulitzer portfolio – and the same mother and child were repeatedly shot by multiple agencies in near‑identical poses, raising serious questions about staging, consent and how one family was repackaged into a global ‘famine’ poster‑child.” Many of the emaciated-appearing children used in press photographs aimed at charging Israel with imposing starvation had underlying preexisting other health conditions that caused their distorted appearance, though Yazan Abu al‑Foul is not known to be one of those.

Don't confuse them with facts. Although apparently as part of one of the reconciliation bills being bandied about, there would be goober-mint funding of the ballroom. I'm assuming it a negotiating ploy, something Democrats aren't any good at. The original plan is privately funded.