Ralph G. Bowles

For the first time in decades, polling in major economies shows a majority favoring nuclear over fossil fuels. Even coal, oil, and gas are increasingly preferred over large-scale wind and solar projects, which consume vast landscapes. After years of narrative-driven policy, the physical reality of the grid is forcing a return to reliable energy density. The era of 'pure' renewable targets is hitting a reliability wall. In South Korea, this wasn't a choice of preference, but a mechanical necessity. In early 2026, the nation saw a significant surge in coal imports—up nearly 14% year-on-year—driven by the need for firm capacity that actually works when the sun sets or the wind fails. During the Middle East energy shocks of early 2026, nations didn't double down on intermittent wind. Instead, they lifted coal caps, fast-tracked nuclear restarts and secured LNG (gas) for grid flexibility. One thing is becoming clear: renewables are losing their status as the primary solution as governments realise Net Zero is a fantasy if it leads to economic collapse or blackouts. The real winners in 2026 are nuclear for baseload and gas for stability. It is a definite shift away from Net Zero 'at all costs' and back to old-fashioned energy security. Battery storage simply cannot meet industrial demand at scale, and remains a marginal player for the heavy lifting required by modern economies. It may be a harsh and unexpected reality check for some. But carbon targets are meaningless when the lights go out.

Half of all calories humanity eats exist thanks to fertilizers made from natural gas. Without fossil fuels, half the world faces severe food shortages. Climate activists warn fossil fuels threaten food via warming—but lack of them is the far bigger, immediate danger. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bjorn-lom…

There a women’s football team in Australia that regularly field 5 men in their team, women don’t want to play them, one women has had her leg broken by a man on this team, many more injuries have resulted too. Read this & see that females in Australia are being treated as not worthy of fair sport or even safety

They came for butter. We got margarine and seed oils, and a generation with heart disease their grandparents never saw. They came for leather. We got plastic shoes that crack at 18 months and end up in landfill with the rest of the petrochemical wardrobe. They came for wool. We got polyester fleece that sheds microplastics into every river and ocean, and into the lungs of every child wearing it. Now they're coming for beef. The pitch is textured vegetable protein, grown in stainless steel tanks in Singapore, fortified with synthetic B12 because the original article had it built in. The pattern is consistent. Every "improvement" is worse for the human eating, wearing, or wiping with it. And better for whoever owns the patent. Traditional materials work. They've been refined over thousands of years by people who had to live with the results. Industrial substitutes are refined over a quarterly earnings call by people who don't. The cow, the sheep, and the dairy herd were never the problem. They were the competition.

What happened on Oct 7, 2023 isn’t what we initially thought it was. At first glance, the terrorist attack that Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists committed against Israel seemed to be the declaration of war between Israel. War did break out, but that wasn’t what it was about. I believe that history will show October 7, 2023 as the day Islamism declared war against the world, and the start of WWIII. The Muslim Brotherhood. The Free Palestine movement. The IRGC. Islamism. That is the day the sleeper cells around the world were activated, instantly starting street celebrations (of the terrorist attack) and protests (of a response that hadn’t yet begun). That is the day that Islamism, through the Free Palestine movement, started to globally recruit soldiers to join their cause. That is the day that Islamism, through its terrorist cells in Western countries, mobilized and started to rise up against the West. That is the day that Islamism, through its strategically placed operatives in politics, education, unions snd all fabrics of Western society, slowly started to turn up the rhetoric, planting the seeds to delegitimize Israel. And “Zionists”. Jews. That is the day that Islamism, through various strategies and initiatives and attacks throughout the world, entered a new phase in its objective to conquer Western nations. The attack on Israel was both the lighting of a fuse and a distraction. The attacks were a sign to the sleepers that it had begun. A call to arms. The ongoing war was used as a justification for the protests and encampments, which had nothing to do with Israel. This distracted Western nations from realizing what was going on. Palestine is now used as a platform issue in elections. And not just federal elections. Local elections. The Islamists are using the false plight of “Palestine” to divide nations. To gain support for their protests. For their violence. For their attacks. And for their politicians. Their causes. Their goal is to delegitimize Israel in the minds of the planet, which will remove support for them, thus making Israel an easier target. Accomplishing this would weaken the West’s ability to wage war in the Middle East, as Israel is the only true democratic nation there, with unwavering ties to the US, British and other Western allies. At the same time, they’re trying to get their people and left parties elected into power, to assist with both removal of support for Israel, and the implementation of Sharia in Western nations, which is the ultimate goal. They don’t want anyone who follows any religion other than Islam. It’s been said for a long time that the next major World War would be a religious one. Those who said it were right. And it’s already begun. On Oct 7, 2023.

The V&A. The Science Museum. The Natural History Museum. The Royal Albert Hall. The Royal Colleges of Art and Music. Imperial College London. 🏛️ None of them were built by the government. They were built by the public, coin by coin, in 1850. Parliament refused to fund the Great Exhibition. The press mocked it. Most people thought it would fail. So Albert and Henry Cole asked the British public instead. Shopkeepers. Clerks. Factory workers. Wives putting aside housekeeping money. 💷 Coin by coin, they paid for it themselves. They built the Crystal Palace in nine months. Three times the size of St Paul's Cathedral. Then six million people came to see it. A third of the entire population. 🚂 Working men's clubs pooled their wages for excursion tickets. Churches sent their parishioners. Employers sent their workers. Mary Callinack, eighty-five years old, walked two hundred and seventy miles from Penzance to London on foot, just to see it. People too poor to make the journey at all walked to the railway tracks instead, and lined up just to watch the trains go by. When the books closed, there was £186,000 of profit. Twenty-five million in today's money. They could have kept it. They didn't. They bought eighty-six acres in South Kensington and built the museums and colleges that still teach the country today. 🎓 The Royal Albert Hall still pays them one shilling a year in rent. There are 850 years left on the lease. The surplus has funded 3,000 British scientists, engineers and designers since 1891. Thirteen of them won the Nobel Prize. 🏅 A hundred and seventy-five years later, British research is still being paid for by a coin a shopkeeper put in an envelope in 1850. That's the bet the British people keep making. Pool what they have. Back something bigger than themselves. Leave it for whoever comes next. This channel runs on the exact same bet. ⏳ No sponsors. No advertisers. No one pays for this except ordinary British people who think it matters. Coin by coin. Just like 1850. Be Part Of Us 🙏 👉proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be Proud Of Us 🙏🇬🇧

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet." Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution. Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer. The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss. The wool is then: - Naturally flame-retardant - Naturally antibacterial - Moisture-wicking - Biodegradable - Renewable, annually - Carbon-storing while in use The replacement, in performance fabrics: - Polyester - Polyamide - Acrylic - Polypropylene - All petroleum-derived - All shedding microplastics on every wash - All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce - All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals. A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years. The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic. The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer. The polymer also has not been asked. Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made. Brian is selling it at a loss. The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical. Reject plastic. Wear wool. Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.

A LONG but must read..... Most people are looking at President Trump's moves one-by-one… and missing the entire play. They see headlines. They see outrage. They see “controversy.” What they’re not seeing is the pattern. Because if you zoom out for 30 seconds, this stops looking chaotic - and starts looking like a coordinated strategy that directly affects your safety, your wallet, and your future. Let’s connect the dots. In just over a year, President Trump has: ~ Reasserted control and leverage over the Panama Canal ~ Removed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro ~ Helped take down cartel kingpin Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ~ Authorized strikes that wiped out Iran’s top leadership, including Ali Khamenei If you think that’s random… you’re already behind. Here’s the reality: This is one strategy with one goal: Lock down America’s backyard. Crush external threats. Force the world to deal on U.S. terms. Not speeches. Not “strongly worded letters.” Results with occasional mean tweets. 1. This is about YOUR safety (not abstract foreign policy) Before this: ~ Cartels were flooding the U.S. with fentanyl ~ Venezuela was a narco-state pipeline feeding instability and migration ~ Iran was funding proxies targeting global shipping and U.S. interests That’s not “over there.” That hits American cities, borders, and families directly. By removing leadership nodes-not just foot soldiers - you don’t slow the problem… You break the system. Less supply. Less coordination. Less reach. That means: ~ Fewer drugs crossing borders ~ Less organized crime power ~ Fewer external threats reaching U.S. soil That’s what “America First” actually looks like in practice. 2. This is about your cost of living (yes, seriously) Most people don’t connect geopolitics to their wallet. They should. Control over the Panama Canal alone impacts: ~ Shipping costs ~ Supply chains ~ Prices of everyday goods Now add: ~ Venezuelan oil back online under U.S.-friendly terms ~ Reduced Iranian disruption in global energy routes That equals: More supply + less instability = lower prices Gas, goods, logistics - it all flows from this. You don’t need to understand geopolitics. You just notice: “Why did things suddenly get cheaper?” This is why. 3. This is about shutting down foreign influence near U.S. borders Here’s what was happening quietly for years: ~ China embedding infrastructure in Latin America ~ Russia and Iran backing regimes like Venezuela ~ Strategic choke points being influenced without resistance That’s how you get boxed in without firing a shot. What changed? ~ China loses leverage in Panama ~ Venezuela flips from hostile hub to controlled transition ~ Cartels - major destabilizing forces - get decapitated That’s not coincidence. That’s removing enemy footholds from your front yard. 4. This is about deterrence (the part most people underestimate) Strength isn’t about constant war. It’s about making sure nobody wants to test you. When adversaries see: ~ Rapid, decisive action ~ Leadership-level targeting ~ Zero appetite for drawn-out conflicts They adjust. Fast. China recalculates. Iran-backed groups think twice. Cartels go on the defensive. That reduces future conflicts before they even start. 5. This is about doing more with LESS taxpayer burden Here’s what’s different from past strategies: No endless occupations. No trillion-dollar rebuilds. No decade-long wars with no exit. Instead: ~ Precision operations ~ Strategic partnerships ~ Economic leverage High impact. Lower long-term cost. That’s not just military strategy. That’s return on investment for taxpayers. So what’s the big picture? Simple. This isn’t empire-building. This is neighborhood control. Secure your hemisphere. Eliminate immediate threats. Control key economic arteries. Force adversaries onto defense. And then? You don’t chase problems… You prevent them. Why people are confused Because they’re being fed isolated narratives: “This is risky.” “This is aggressive.” “This is controversial.” But no one is stitching it together for them. When you do… It becomes obvious: ~ Safer borders ~ Lower costs ~ Stronger global position ~ Less long-term conflict The bottom line You don’t have to like the style. But ignoring the results is just willful blindness. This is what a transactional, results-driven foreign policy looks like: Not managing decline. Not asking for permission. Setting terms - and making them stick.

The Arab slave trade started earlier, lasted longer and enslaved more people than the Atlantic slave trade. Muslims enslaved 30 million Africans and 5 million Europeans since the 7th century. Many Muslim countries are still actively practicing slavery today. Why don’t we learn about it in school?

Thank you to Australian public intellectual, Professor Clive Hamilton AM, for voicing public support for Dr Andrew Amos, @salltweets, @aytchellesse and me in his Substack article: clivehamilton1.substack.com/p/gender-ideol… @Mark_Butler_MP @AngusTaylorMP @PaulineHansonOz @DavidCrisafulli @TimNichollsMP

Yes it is egregiously stupid for our country to allow the regulator of therapeutic drugs to be funded by the industry it regulates. It beggars belief that Australia tolerates this. The Covid jabs showed how bad is this arrangement . Excess deaths!

Gaza was a testing ground for a “two state solution”. Israel pulled out in 2005. They forcefully removed their own Jewish communities. Some had been there for about two thousand years. The world was buzzing with excitement. Because if Gaza worked—despite the broken offers of the past—a two state solution would be viable. Many people believed this was a step in the right direction. There was hope. Israel had done something very painful—hoping for peace. All the Arabs had to do was not try kill Jews. Use the billions flowing in wisely. A chance to build a prototype mini state on the beach. To take care of their people. The sky was the limit. The violence started almost immediately, unfortunately. Rockets and terror. Then October 7th happened. These terrorist animals filmed themselves butchering innocent people in the most horrific ways. Killing with a barbaric glee. Now the world expects Israel to give them a state? You must be out of your bloody mind. Imagine a situation similar to Gaza, but only bigger. With an airport and access to advanced weaponry. It’s insane. The two state solution is dead. The useful idiots in the West will keep egging on the Palestinians. To keep fighting. To keep “resisting”. Unfortunately, they will continue fighting. And continue losing. The lives of innocents in Gaza will continue to deteriorate. That cycle will continue until most have left Gaza. It’s a sad story all around.

@TimNichollsMP Along with many (most?) sensible clinicians, there are many mainstream, senior psychiatrists, who have never had anything to do with health politics in their lives, who are deeply concerned about the direction of ‘gender care’, and the role of @ahpra. Most of us have never gotten off the sidelines for anything or anyone. We’ve sat back and tut-tutted the NDIS pathologising of dorky boys, the psycho-stimulant epidemic and other cultural contagions because, well … for all the reasons sensible people get on with their lives and livelihoods. Eye-rolling seemed enough. But I’ve never seen such reluctance to speak out on any issue as I've seen on this one. Maybe we’re afraid that gender ideologues and their allies are the most persistent, organised and aggressive complainants we’ve ever encountered and the most likely to succeed before the regulator. No one's career is worth an AHPRA sanction or the relentless punishment-by-process that is the reflexive starting point of an AHPRA complaint. AHPRA have terrifying powers that are properly exercised to stop incompetent doctors, impaired doctors and doctors who exploit or mutilate their patients, but are now used to intimidate and silence doctors under an elastic code of conduct. AHPRA's scope, conduct and manner is now so broad and frankly flamboyant, it resembles, and perhaps it sees itself, as a cultural institution. The excesses of AHPRA's language in its recent response to the Australian Newspaper contain all the modish buzzwords of psychological and cultural comforting and nothing about, for instance, drunk GPs or mutilating surgeons, which most doctors think is its job, and it's only job. As it stands, kids are in agony, parents are in agony, and very few competent people are able to stare down the threats of suicide and allegations of psychological and cultural torture that go along with holding what were, until a few years ago, mainstream opinions. Mainstream opinions about child safety are now 'unsafe', a word thrown around like Minties at a kid's birthday party. Allegations, or even the possibility that someone may be made to feel psychologically 'unsafe' are paralysing clinicians into silence and inaction. The issue of 'gender care' has alarmed some of us like never before. We have never seen our colleagues lose their way so badly. Actually, like us, our errant colleagues are increasingly irrelevant because junior and unskilled practitioners, making up things as they go, have joined the cultural zeitgeist, and the issue has well and truly escaped medical care, other than prescribing medication and surgery. The Minister needs to get out in front here, somehow.

@alan_john_moran Carbon taxes would sound stupid (they actually are), if they called them by their proper proportion. Since CO2 is double oxygen to carbon, they should be called ‘oxygen taxes’, which sounds really dumb.

IPA estimates that the carbon tax of the "Safeguard Mechanism" means Australia's two oil refineries will pay $165.5 million by 2029-30.

Muslims all over Europe are freaking out after Sweden made a historic and courageous decision: it will no longer use the term “Islamophobia,” coined by the Muslim Brotherhood, because it is a politically manipulated concept aimed at silencing criticism of Islam. Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard announced that her government will push the European Union and the United Nations to stop using this fraudulent term. The concept of “Islamophobia” was deliberately designed to equate legitimate criticism of Islamic doctrine with racism. It was weaponized to shut down discussion about core Islamic texts containing commands to wage war, rape, and subjugate non-Muslims. Sweden just recognized what millions of Europeans already know: criticizing a religion that openly calls for the murder and sexual enslavement of non-believers is not a phobia, but basic common sense and self-preservation. This is a massive blow to the Islamist lobby across Europe. Do you agree with Sweden’s decision?

@AlboMP What are your long term plans for onshore drilling, refining and storing fuels?

We're working hard to secure more fuel and shield Australians from the worst impacts of war in the Middle East.

Pre-Islamic Arabs held the Jews in considerable esteem as “People of the Book”, literate, legally sophisticated, financially productive, possessors of a scripture and a law that Arab tribal society lacked. Islamic sources describe the Arabian Jewish communities in significant detail: the Nadir built elaborate irrigation systems to support date palm plantations in the desert; the Qurayza fortresses formed a substantial part of Medina’s defensive architecture; the Jews of Khaybar had constructed what were widely regarded as the most formidable military positions in Arabia. Muhammad’s Quranic verses increasingly demonized the Jews as the Medinan period progressed. The Islamic sources are not explicit about the reasons for this trajectory, but several motivations suggest themselves. The Jews’ rejection of Muhammad’s prophetic claims was a source of documented frustration: “If only ten Jews had accepted Islam, surely all would have entered,” Muhammad lamented. Their superior knowledge of the Biblical texts from which Muhammad drew his narratives, often inaccurately, meant they could and did expose errors in his accounts, a form of challenge he found intolerable; the sources record multiple occasions on which he ordered his mockers killed. And the financial incentive was substantial: the traditional Islamic sources document the Arabian Jews’ wealth in considerable detail, and plunder emerges from those same sources as a primary economic resource for the early Muslim community, whose members were largely the poor, the destitute, and former slaves who had come to the mosque for food. This excerpt is from our forthcoming IDI Journal. Follow @IDICenter for updates.

Hunga Tonga is still affecting the atmosphere. On January 15, 2022, the underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific. It blasted roughly 160 million metric tons of water vapor into the stratosphere, increasing levels by an unprecedented 10%. Most major eruptions cool the planet by injecting reflective aerosols. Hunga Tonga erupted underwater and punched seawater high into the atmosphere. Water vapor is the most dominant greenhouse gas. NASA warned the eruption could have a temporary warming effect. Global temperatures then spiked in 2023 and 2024. Predictably though, the spike was sold as proof of accelerating CO2-driven warming. Activist-scientists downplayed any influence from the record Hunga Tonga eruption. But now comes the next test: The excess water vapor is now declining, slowly, and with it, global temperatures are also falling. The "accelerating crisis" looks a lot like a temporary atmospheric pulse - now fading on schedule. Here again, we have a natural driver dominating Earth's climate.

Kazakhstan officially joins the Abraham Accords: Israeli President, Isaac Herzog visited Kazakhstan in the last 24 hrs to consolidate on a new beautiful relationship with the country! Kazakhstan has just joined the Abrahamic Accords and it is the first Muslim country outside the Middle East to re unite with Israel.

FACTS Make no mistake that If Dreyfus were on trial today those supporting the Palestinians would be at the head of the baying mob screaming that Dreyfus was guilty …. In 1895, the sound of a breaking sword changed Jewish history forever. It was a cold morning in Paris. January 5, 1895. In the courtyard of the École Militaire, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was marched out before 5,000 soldiers. He had been convicted of treason…spying for Germany. We know today that he was entirely innocent. The evidence was forged. The real traitor (Walsin Esterhazy) was protected by the High Command. Dreyfus was chosen for one reason: He was a Jew. But the French Army didn’t just want to imprison him. They wanted to ritualistically destroy him. They staged a "Degradation Ceremony." An adjutant walked up to Dreyfus and ripped the gold braids from his uniform. He tore the red stripes from his trousers. He ripped the epaulettes from his shoulders. Finally, he took Dreyfus’s sword, broke it over his knee, and threw the pieces into the mud. Dreyfus, sobbing but standing upright, shouted into the void: "I swear that I am innocent! I remain worthy of serving in the Army! Long live France! Long live the Army!" But the crowd outside the gates didn't care about the facts. They didn't scream "Death to the Traitor." They screamed "Death to the Jews." Standing in that crowd was a journalist named Theodor Herzl. Herzl had spent his life believing that if Jews just acted "civilized" enough, if they dressed right, spoke French perfectly, and served their countries loyally, antisemitism would disappear. He watched the most loyal, assimilated Jewish officer in France get destroyed while the mob cheered for the death of an entire people. In that moment, Herzl realized the truth: It didn't matter how "French" you tried to be. To them, you would always be a Jew first. Safety would never be given. It had to be built. Though condemned to life in solitary confinement, Dreyfus survived five harrowing years before the silence was finally broken. It was Émile Zola’s explosive open letter, J’Accuse…!, that exposed the conspiracy to the world, shaming the French government into the retrial that would eventually lead to his freedom. But the sound of that snapping sword woke up the Jewish world. ( Credit Melissa Steinberg Brodsky ) We are still awake. #contentcreator