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Darn archaeologists screw up UN Climate scaremonger narrative. Real scientific facts keep getting in the way of the nightmare fairy tale. 20,000 years ago, Britain was connected to mainland Europe.
Time Team Special 26 (2007) - Britain's Drowned World
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Downtown Scott Brown retweeted
Footage from inside the Midget Club!
It was a super popular tavern that went out of business when the City controversially seized the building and converted the lot to a public library.
Could the city have found different land?
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Stanford University student Elsa Johnson became a target of the Chinese Communist Party in 2024.
Elsa attended a private school as a child with a heavy focus on foreign languages and became fluent in Mandarin Chinese while still in elementary school. Years later after she was accepted to Stanford, she studied international relations and researched Chinese industry and military tactics while working at the Hoover Institution on campus.
She soon came to the attention of members of the Chinese Communist Party, which has a heavy presence at Stanford and throughout Southern California. There are currently more than 1,000 Chinese students attending Stanford each year, and the university has received more than $64,000,000 in private donations from Chinese individuals and organizations since 2010.
In June 2024, a man claiming to be a fellow Stanford student named Charles Chen contacted her online. She was not initially suspicious as they had many mutual associates, and his photos and posts appeared to be centered on campus. But his questions and requests quickly put her on edge as he invited her on a paid trip to China. And he seemingly knew details about her that she had never shared with him.
When she tried to disengage with him, she began receiving threatening phone calls by Chinese speakers. Elsa contacted Stanford administrators and the FBI, who told her Charles was likely affiliated with the Ministry of State Security, had been posing as a Stanford student for years, and had targeted at least ten other female students since 2020 in a similar manner. They also told her she was under physical surveillance on campus by the Chinese Communist Party.
Elsa wrote articles in the Stanford Review and The Free Press about Chinese influence on campus, and in March 2026 testified about espionage threats on college campuses before the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
For episode 270 of the Spycraft 101 podcast I spoke with Elsa about being targeted by a foreign government right in the middle of a US college campus. The episode is available now.
#stanford #college #student #china #hooverinstitute
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Downtown Scott Brown retweeted
This guy had a 10-pound bass on the line… and then an alligator came out of nowhere and stole it right in front of him.
One second he’s about to celebrate the catch of a lifetime, the next he’s scrambling away as the gator swims off with his catch. Absolute chaos!
Florida wildlife really said “that’s mine now.” 😂
Have you ever had something crazy like this happen while fishing?
The realignment
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There is only one thing that can cause this tidal erosion banding on Khafre, ... and it took mankind until 2010 to figure this out.
For shame... We are not a very smart species.
Find out what this means for our future, by acquiring the definitive book:
Inversion — ECDO Theory
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Downtown Scott Brown retweeted
Electricity is NOT the same thing as ENERGY.
Colorado's renewable-energy cheerleaders are celebrating this 50.9% electricity statistic. Here's what they're leaving out.
According to EIA data, wind and solar supplied just 7.1% of Colorado's TOTAL primary energy consumption in 2024.
Nearly 90% came from fossil fuels.
And what happens when winter arrives?
On January 24, 2026, during a major winter storm, Xcel's Colorado electricity generation came from:
- Natural gas: 66%
- Coal: 19%
- Wind: 7%
- Solar: 5%
That's 85% fossil fuels versus 12% wind and solar when reliable power was especially important.
Meanwhile, Xcel received approval for another $157 MILLION in annual revenue, increasing average residential electric bills by approximately 4.8%.
Colorado families need affordable electricity, heated homes, transportation, food production, and functioning hospitals.
Reliable energy isn't a luxury. During a Colorado winter, it can literally be the difference between life and death.
Celebrating annual generation percentages while ignoring total energy consumption, winter reliability, and household costs isn't serious energy analysis. It's selective accounting.
Downtown Scott Brown retweeted
Je parle souvent de La Route de la servitude de Friedrich Hayek. Je vais être direct : pour moi, quiconque lit ce livre en étant sain d'esprit et n'en ressort pas libéral et profondément anti-étatiste est soit fou, soit stupide, soit corrompu. Soit les trois à la fois.
Voici pourquoi. Masterclass.
D'abord, l'homme.
Friedrich Hayek naît à Vienne en 1899, dans un empire qui se croit éternel. À 18 ans, il est sur le front italien. Quand il rentre, l'empire n'existe plus. Il voit l'Autriche sombrer dans l'hyperinflation, les économies d'une vie effacées en quelques mois.
Il devient l'élève de Ludwig von Mises, celui qui avait démontré qu'un planificateur sans prix libres navigue à l'aveugle. En 1931, il part enseigner à Londres et devient le grand rival intellectuel de Keynes. En 1938, il voit son pays natal avalé par Hitler sous les acclamations de la foule. Il prend la nationalité britannique.
C'est là, en pleine guerre, entre 1940 et 1943, qu'il écrit son livre. Pas contre les nazis : tout le monde l'était déjà. Contre quelque chose de bien plus dérangeant. Il voit les élites anglaises, les meilleurs esprits, les gens les mieux intentionnés, reprendre exactement les idées qui avaient mené l'Allemagne au désastre. Planification, direction de l'économie, organisation « scientifique » de la société.
Il dédie le livre « aux socialistes de tous les partis ». Tout est dit.
Trois éditeurs américains le refusent. Il sort en 1944, s'épuise en quelques semaines, puis le Reader's Digest le condense pour des millions de lecteurs. Keynes lui-même, son grand adversaire, lui écrit qu'il en approuve moralement et philosophiquement presque chaque ligne. Trente ans plus tard, Hayek reçoit le prix Nobel. Thatcher relit le livre en 1974 et change la trajectoire de l'Angleterre.
Le titre, d'ailleurs, est un hommage à un Français : Tocqueville, qui avait vu venir le despotisme doux.
Maintenant, ce que dit le livre. En clair.
Première idée : personne ne sait assez pour planifier.
La connaissance qui fait tourner une économie n'est dans aucun bureau. Elle est éparpillée dans des millions de têtes : l'agriculteur qui sait quand sa terre est prête, le commerçant qui sent son quartier changer, l'artisan qui connaît son fournisseur. Le prix libre est le seul système capable de rassembler tout ça en un signal. Remplacez les prix par un plan, et vous remplacez le savoir de millions de gens par l'ignorance de quelques-uns.
Deuxième idée : contrôler l'économie, c'est contrôler la vie.
On croit que l'économie est un domaine à part, matériel, secondaire. Faux. Celui qui contrôle les moyens contrôle les fins. S'il décide de ce que vous pouvez produire, acheter, chauffer, cultiver, il décide de la façon dont vous vivez. Il n'y a pas de liberté politique sans liberté économique.
Troisième idée : une démocratie ne peut pas se mettre d'accord sur un plan.
Tout le monde veut « un plan ». Personne ne veut le même. Le Parlement débat, tergiverse, se divise. L'impatience monte, et on finit par dire : laissons faire les experts. On délègue à des agences, des commissions, des autorités « indépendantes ». La démocratie ne meurt pas d'un coup d'État. Elle se dessaisit elle-même, par lassitude.
Quatrième idée : l'État de droit contre l'arbitraire.
Dans un pays libre, l'État fixe des règles générales, connues à l'avance, les mêmes pour tous, comme le code de la route. Vous savez à quoi vous attendre et vous construisez votre vie autour. Dans un pays planifié, l'État décide au cas par cas : qui a droit à quoi, quel secteur survit, quelle région est sacrifiée. Ce n'est plus la loi qui gouverne, c'est la volonté de quelqu'un.
Cinquième idée, la plus terrible : pourquoi les pires arrivent au sommet.
C'est le chapitre que tout le monde devrait lire. Quand le plan échoue, et il échoue toujours, il faut contraindre. Il faut des gens prêts à faire ce que les gens honnêtes refusent de faire. Le système ne promeut pas les meilleurs, il sélectionne ceux qui n'ont pas de scrupules. Et pour souder une majorité autour du plan, rien ne marche mieux qu'un ennemi commun : le riche, l'étranger, le récalcitrant.
Sixième idée : la fin de la vérité.
Un plan a besoin que tout le monde y croie. Alors l'information devient un instrument. Ce qui sert le plan est vrai, ce qui le gêne devient de la « désinformation ». La propagande n'est pas un accident du dirigisme. C'est une nécessité.
Et la leçon centrale, celle qui glace le sang : ceux qui ouvrent la route ne sont pas des monstres. Ce sont des gens sincères, cultivés, bien intentionnés. Ils veulent la justice, la sécurité, le progrès. Ils ne voient pas où mène le chemin. Les monstres arrivent après, quand le terrain est prêt.
Ce livre est une bouteille à la mer. Hayek nous a laissé le mode d'emploi pour reconnaître la pente avant qu'elle devienne un précipice.
Et que fait l'Europe ? Elle rejoue le livre, chapitre par chapitre.
Les règles générales remplacées par des milliers de normes au cas par cas. Des décisions qui pèsent sur nos vies prises par une Commission que personne n'a élue et que personne ne peut renvoyer. Des plans à vingt-cinq ans pour l'énergie, l'agriculture, l'industrie, l'automobile, comme si quelqu'un à Bruxelles savait mieux que 450 millions d'Européens ce qu'il faudra produire en 2050. Et quand ça échoue, on ne remet jamais le plan en cause. On ajoute une couche : une taxe, une interdiction, un régulateur.
Le plus cruel, c'est l'ironie. En 1939, Hayek défendait l'idée d'une fédération européenne. Mais une fédération où ni le centre ni les États ne pourraient diriger l'économie. Une union pour libérer les échanges, pas pour piloter les vies. Nos européistes ont gardé le mot « fédération » et jeté tout le reste. Ils ont construit exactement ce contre quoi il nous mettait en garde.
Ils avaient le livre à portée de main. Ils refont les mêmes erreurs, avec les mêmes bonnes intentions et le même mépris pour ceux qui doutent.
Je ne crois pas que l'histoire se répète à l'identique. Je crois qu'elle rime. Au XXe siècle, la route de la servitude a mené au pire : des tyrans fous, des peuples broyés, des dizaines de millions de morts. Ceux qui avaient ouvert la route n'avaient jamais voulu ça.
J'espère que, pour une fois dans l'histoire, nous saurons nous arrêter avant. Que nous n'attendrons pas le tyran pour comprendre où menait le chemin.
Hayek nous a tout dit il y a quatre-vingts ans. La seule question est de savoir si nous saurons le lire à temps.
Lisez La Route de la servitude. Puis offrez-le à quelqu'un que vous aimez.
Christine Lagarde publie son autobiographie le 4 février 2027. Titre : « Lady First ».
Pile au moment où elle s'apprête à quitter la BCE avant la fin de son mandat.
Officiellement, c'est pour laisser Macron choisir son successeur. Et la rumeur l'envoie à la tête de Davos.
Un livre-portrait, une sortie anticipée, une présidentielle trois mois plus tard. Vous croyez aux coïncidences ?
On va essayer de vous la vendre. Pour comprendre ce qu'on va vous vendre, il faut d'abord comprendre ce qu'est le mondialisme.
Le mot est tellement utilisé qu'il ne veut plus rien dire. Reprenons.
Le mondialisme, ce n'est pas le commerce international. Des pays libres qui échangent des biens, c'est le marché. Le mondialisme, c'est l'inverse : l'idée que les grandes décisions (monnaie, énergie, frontières, normes, dépenses) doivent remonter toujours plus haut, vers des instances que personne n'a élues et que personne ne peut révoquer.
Ce projet a un nom. C'est un projet de planification centrale. C'est un projet communiste.
Pas le communisme du drapeau rouge et du kolkhoze. C'est le communisme des comités, des normes, des « trajectoires », des objectifs fixés d'en haut pour 450 millions de personnes.
Mises l'a démontré dès 1920 : sans prix libres, un planificateur ne peut pas calculer. Aussi intelligent soit-il, il navigue à l'aveugle.
Hayek a enfoncé le clou en 1945. Le savoir qui fait tourner une économie est dispersé dans des millions de têtes : entrepreneurs, agriculteurs, artisans, ingénieurs. Aucun bureau ne peut le centraliser. Ceux qui prétendent le faire ne planifient pas l'économie, ils la détruisent.
Dans La Route de la servitude, il décrit la suite. Quand le plan échoue, on ne remet jamais le plan en cause. On accuse le peuple, on serre la vis, on retire des libertés. C'est mécanique : plus le centre est loin, plus il doit contraindre.
Le Gosplan avait ses plans quinquennaux. Nous avons des « Green Deal », des « Pactes » et des « Agendas 2030 ». C'est la même logique, avec un meilleur marketing.
Ce projet n'est pas un fantasme, il est écrit noir sur blanc. Jacques Attali, l'ancien conseiller de Mitterrand, plaide ouvertement pour un gouvernement mondial.
Lisez « Demain, qui gouvernera le monde ? ». Il ne s'en cache pas. C'est la matrice intellectuelle de toute une génération de dirigeants français.
Attal. Philippe. Glucksmann. Lagarde.
Les étiquettes changent, la direction reste la même : toujours plus de pouvoir loin de vous, toujours moins de pouvoir chez vous.
Lagarde en est l'incarnation parfaite : Bercy, le FMI, la BCE, et peut-être Davos.
Jamais élue au suffrage universel à une fonction exécutive, toujours aux commandes. Le récit est déjà prêt : la femme des premières fois, la compétente, la rassurante, celle « au-dessus des partis ». La candidate idéale d'un système qui n'a plus de candidat.
Ne vous faites pas avoir.
Place au Brivadamus.
Si l'extrême centre rafle encore 2027, ce seront les dernières vraies élections de ce pays.
On ne supprimera pas le vote, mais il ne décidera plus de rien, parce que tout ce qui compte aura été transféré plus haut. Vous voterez encore, comme on vote dans ces pays où le résultat ne change rien.
Ce sera 1984 avec un label RSE. Et l'Europe, la vraie, celle des nations, des peuples et des cultures, ne s'en relèvera pas.
2027 n'est pas une élection comme les autres.
C'est la dernière sortie avant l'autoroute.
Brivadamus a parlé.
Downtown Scott Brown retweeted
Today, two visions of the world are colliding. And Bill Gates is probably the clearest example.
On one side, the people who build. On the other, the people who manage.
For 30 years, Gates has presented himself as the man who wants to save the world. But look closely at how it actually works.
His philanthropy is first and foremost a reputation machine. Millions poured into media, massive funding for supranational organizations, a presence everywhere the narrative gets written. When you fund the people who write the story, the story is rarely hard on you.
Then there's the model itself. Foundations, NGOs, grants. A system where money flows, reports pile up, conferences follow one after another, but the problem never actually needs to be solved. Because a solved problem is a cause that disappears. Grants keep the problem alive. Entrepreneurs kill it.
The Elon Musk episode sums it all up.
In 2022, Gates reaches out to Musk to talk about philanthropy and climate. Musk asks him one question: do you still have a half-billion-dollar short position against Tesla? Gates replies: sorry to say I haven't closed it out.
Read that again. The man who wants to save the planet from climate change was betting hundreds of millions on the collapse of the company that did more than anyone to electrify global transportation. And he was asking its founder to back his climate vision.
Musk said no. Obviously.
Because underneath, these are two irreconcilable philosophies.
Musk believes we need more. More energy, more humans, more planets. Abundance as the answer.
Gates believes we need to manage. Consume less, emit less, have fewer children. Ration, regulate, control. It's Malthus for the modern age: the conviction that humanity is a problem to contain rather than a force to unleash.
Bill Gates is the pure, sick product of our era. A society that rewards the appearance of goodness over goodness itself. That prefers the press release to the result. The charity gala to the factory.
And deep down, I find this man profoundly sad. To have had so much money, so much power, and to choose to manage the world instead of building it.
Replying to @KatieMiller
No kidding, wow.
Gates is funding people who attack me. He still has a massive short position against Tesla.
Awesome
Caleb Williams had last weekend off. The Chicago Bears do not play again until November 2.
So he flew to Madison, Wisconsin.
Not for an appearance and not for money. USC was playing Wisconsin on Saturday, and Caleb Williams went to USC, so he went and watched his old team play.
He wore a Trojans jacket. He filmed himself on the sideline like somebody at his first game. He got a picture with Marcus Allen.
And somewhere on the walk in, he came up on a lemonade stand some neighborhood kids had set up near Camp Randall.
He stopped.
There is video of it. A folding table on a Madison sidewalk, a crowd of kids and parents three deep around it, and the first overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft standing in the middle of them waiting his turn like everybody else.
Be straight about one part. People are saying he left those kids a huge tip. Nobody has confirmed any amount and the only place that number lives is a social media post, so we are not going to repeat it.
What is actually on the video is that he stopped.
Caleb Williams won the Heisman Trophy at USC in 2022 and went first overall in 2024. In between he got taken apart by people who had never met him. The painted nails. The pink phone. Going into the stands to cry with his mother after a loss. There were grown adults on television arguing about whether he had the personality to lead a football team.
Two years later he had a weekend with nothing on it.
He spent it in a Trojans jacket in Wisconsin, watching his old school get beaten 24 to 7, standing on a sidewalk buying lemonade off a card table.
At halftime somebody spotted him talking to Jayden Maiava, the quarterback who has his old job, while USC was down 10 to 7.
He did not have to be at any of it.
Downtown Scott Brown retweeted
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That's right. Of roughly 10.7 million people who survived the crossing, around 390,000 landed in mainland North America. Brazil took nearly half. The Caribbean sugar islands took most of the rest.
Downtown Scott Brown retweeted
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In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.
He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.
By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.
He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.
Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.
An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.
He never stopped and left school at 15.
By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.
In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.
Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.
You’ve probably heard that part.
Here’s the part you haven’t:
He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.
But he never stopped trying to understand his father.
He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.
He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.
He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.
So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.
In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.
He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”
Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”
At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.
2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.
He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”
After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.
He played every character himself and donated every cent.
In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.
In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.
She was his first dog in more than 50 years.
He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.
Then he kept fostering more.
When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.
So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.
Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖
Downtown Scott Brown retweeted
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Communists don't give up power once they have seized it.
Bukele said it clearly: "If you don't impeach corrupt judges, you CANNOT reform the country. They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms."
Brazil has just shown it live. The Supreme Court annulled Lula's corruption convictions on procedural grounds. The same court sentenced his main rival, Jair Bolsonaro, to 27 years in prison, after the electoral court had already barred him from running. Yesterday, Lula won a fourth term.
France has practiced it for decades, maybe more subtly and discreetly – though in 2013, a left-wing magistrates' union was caught with a "wall of idiots" in its offices: photos of right-wing politicians pinned up for mockery.
Universal suffrage only makes sense if the last word belongs to the elected – not to a network of irremovable magistrates who interpret the rules according to their own interests.
Without real removal of political judges, elections remain theater.
The cartel stays in place.
Now imagine Poland, where our judiciary is in total continuity from communist times. A military judge of martial law later presided over a chamber of the Supreme Court of supposedly free Poland. The methods are more subtle now, of course – these people are smart – but the results are the same.
And just for good measure, look at who eagerly congratulated the corrupt Lula straight away: Ursula von der Leyen. Birds of a feather recognize each other at first sight.
It tells us a lot about Ursula and Lula alike…
Downtown Scott Brown retweeted
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
Downtown Scott Brown retweeted
On this day—October 29, 1972
Palestinian terrorists hijacked a Lufthansa jet, and West Germany immediately gave in and freed the Munich Olympics killers the same day.
Hijackers demanded the three surviving terrorists who had murdered 11 Israeli athletes weeks earlier. Bonn paid the ransom and flew them to Libya.
Israel’s foreign minister called it a “great victory” for the terrorists.
This event began formal West German–PLO ties, a PLO mission in Bonn, and quiet funding of Palestinian propaganda.
Marxism always ruins
When a government bans synthetic fertilizers overnight, everyone doesn't spontaneously transition to organic farming. They produce famine.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa signed the order in April 2021, prohibiting all synthetic agrochemicals across Sri Lanka in one stroke, with zero phase-in period, zero pilot programs, zero economic modeling. Sri Lankan farmers had built their entire production systems around those inputs.
Rice yields collapsed by 40% within months. Tea output, the country's primary export earner, cratered. A nation that had fed itself for decades suddenly scrambled to import rice it once grew in abundance.
The government compounded this by years of reckless tax cuts that slashed state revenue without cutting state spending. This produces deficits, not prosperity. Foreign reserves evaporated. Sri Lanka defaulted on $51 billion in external debt in April 2022, its first sovereign default since independence. Fuel shipments stopped because the government had no foreign currency to pay for them. Queues stretched for miles. Hospitals ran out of medicine.
Rajapaksa's organic mandate was central planning with a green label, and it produced exactly what central planning always produces: shortages followed by hunger.
By July 2022, protesters stormed the Presidential Palace in Colombo and swam in his pool. Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives. The entire population paid the bill for his idiotic green ideology.
Only the beginning?... 😬
Chicago Mayor wants 13.5% tax on beer, wine, spirits sold in stores.
But hey, no biggie. I talk about tax hikes in Chgo and IL every day, and the Useful Idiots scream "STFU about taxes!" and "If you don't like Chicago and Illinois taxes, leave!"
So enjoy this hike.
@vjeannek
What could go wrong
Germany's planners proved that you can destroy an energy grid without a single bomb, just green ideology and a bureaucrat's signature.
The Energiewende, launched aggressively under Merkel's government after Fukushima in 2011, accelerated the shutdown of nuclear plants that collectively generated 22% of Germany's electricity. Wind and solar expanded, yes, but grid-scale storage technology never followed. Battery infrastructure at the scale Germany needed simply didn't exist. Planners chose to ignore this constraint entirely.
The resulting energy gap had to be filled somehow. Gazprom filled it. By 2021, Russia supplied approximately 55% of Germany's natural gas imports, piped through Nord Stream 1 and the contested Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Politicians celebrated this as pragmatic cooperation. Concentrating energy dependence in a single authoritarian supplier handed Vladimir Putin a loaded gun.
Putin pulled the trigger in 2022.
Russia cut gas flows following the Ukraine invasion, and German households watched their energy bills double and triple. The country scrambled to resurrect coal plants it had previously shuttered on environmental grounds, which was a spectacular act of self-parody. Germany paid spot prices above 300 euros per megawatt-hour in August 2022, compared to roughly 85 euros the prior year.
Germany's energy planners suppressed market signals for a decade, mandated political timelines over engineering realities, and handed the bill to every German family heating their home that brutal winter.





































