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BREAKING: Three people have dıed after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic.

In Strasbourg France, Europe's largest mosque is being built, spanning 10,000 square meters, funded by Turkey and Qatar at a cost of 32 million euros. Arab countries, in complicity with the EU, are turning Europe into an Islamic caliphate.

This has to stop Nuclear is the most energy dense form of electricity generation. It uses less land by far than any other source per unit of electricity generated Blocking it for spurious environmental reasons is moronic Time to get rid of these unelected bodies that have no proper accountability

Miliband's Secret. China's Opportunity. Ed Miliband promised the public two things. Bills would come down. The grid would be secure. This week, evidence emerged that he has been actively suppressing analysis that undermines the first promise, while the architecture of his energy policy systematically undermines the second. Start with the cover-up. Miliband scrapped zonal pricing last July, overriding his own civil servants who had backed the reform. He did so after wind farm developers warned it would reduce their profits and threaten his 2030 clean power target. He then promised a full cost-benefit analysis by the end of last year. His department took five months to respond to a Freedom of Information request, in breach of the legal requirement of twenty working days. It has since blocked release of the impact assessment, claiming the document is unfinished, while simultaneously insisting the policy is definitively closed. Those two positions are mutually exclusive. His department's own director admitted the public interest favours disclosure before refusing it anyway. The reason given for continued suppression: releasing the document might disrupt energy markets. No evidence was provided for that claim. What the suppressed analysis likely shows is what independent research already suggests. Zonal pricing would have cut household bills by reducing the fees paid to wind farms to switch off when the grid cannot absorb their power. That wasted wind bill hit a record £1.5 billion last year. Miliband sided with the generators over consumers. The analysis that proves it remains locked in a ministerial drawer. The grid security picture is worse. Britain's electricity network is being radically restructured. Hundreds of internet-connected generators are being added to a system that once linked a handful of large power stations. Each connection is a potential entry point. The chief executive of Hitachi Energy, which supplies transformers to the UK grid, has said plainly that cyber attack on power infrastructure is not a question of if but when. Poland's green energy network was penetrated by hackers, almost certainly Russian, through communications terminals embedded in thirty wind and solar farms. Britain is one of the world's top targets for hostile cyber attack, with around one in four European attacks aimed at British companies and utilities last year. Against that backdrop, the sourcing of Britain's new grid infrastructure demands scrutiny it is not receiving. Most of Britain's critical electrical components, smart turbines, solar panels and switchgear, come from China. US intelligence services have warned explicitly against growing reliance on Chinese-sourced energy technology. Claire Coutinho has raised it in Parliament. The warnings have been ignored. The question of who is advising the Prime Minister on these risks sits uncomfortably alongside the sourcing decisions being made. Jonathan Powell, the National Security Adviser, maintained extensive relationships with PLA-connected Chinese officials through his private consultancy before and during his government role. Every parliamentary question about his vetting arrangements and the content of those meetings has been blocked. The government's justification uses language identical to that deployed to block questions about Mandelson. Powell's vetting status has never been confirmed. The man responsible for advising on Britain's national security posture has undisclosed connections to the state whose components are being embedded throughout Britain's most critical infrastructure. Parliament has been refused the information needed to assess whether that is a problem. Miliband says the public should be reassured. A minister who suppressed his own analysis, overrode his civil servants to protect wind farm profits, and is wiring China into Britain's critical infrastructure against the warnings of Britain's closest ally has not earned that word.

JUST IN: Global leaders fear the end of NATO, per Breitbart.

Reporter: Have you invited Putin to be a member of the board of peace? Trump: Yes Reporter: Can you respond to Macron saying he will not join the board of peace? Trump: Nobody wants him… I’ll put a 200% tariff on his wines and he’ll join

The Forties Pipeline System (FPS) This is the pipeline system that carries most of the oil from the North Sea to the UK. It collects the oil from 85 different North Sea oilfields, and flows around 550,000 barrels of oil per day back to the UK mainland. For context, in total the North Sea has around 400 offshore platforms between the UK and Norway, producing and exporting both oil and gas. FPS is a British oil pipeline system. Exploration drilling for North Sea oil is currently banned on the UK Continental Shelf. It has been since the current government came to power. As a result of the drilling ban, the Forties Pipeline System is currently uninvestable according to its owner INEOS. They haven’t invested in its upkeep for 2 years. INEOS have said the pipeline will close by 2035, but without investment maybe as early as 2030, which is now just 3.5 years away. 550,000 barrels / day is equivalent to 38.96 GW of primary energy. This is 10x more energy than the UK’s new Hinkley Point C nuclear power project, which is projected to cost £48 billion for 3.2GW of electrical power. Electrical energy is joule for joule more valuable than chemical energy, but the comparison of scale is real. 38.9 GW is more energy than the entire National Grid carries. The largest energy system in the UK is not the grid it is this underwater pipeline system. With drilling banned, and the North Sea entering a period of forced closure, the Forties Pipeline System is going to close in the not too distant future. Once the pipeline is no longer economical, the entire Central North Sea oil production will collapse with it. This isn’t something that closes down gracefully, the entire Central North Sea basin reaches market through a single pipe. BP recently announced they are selling up their remaining assets and getting out, Exxon, Chevron, etc are all already long gone. Nobody wants their brand near this collapse. The tax rate is 78%, the government wants this national infrastructure to shut down. It will. The German Chancellor recently called their nuclear fleet closure a “Strategic Blunder”, interesting choice of words. But I think it was obviously a blunder to anyone outside their propaganda bubble. Likewise the UK’s North Sea. The German nuclear fleet averaged 10.3 GW of primary energy output over its operational life, which is around 1/4 the primary energy of the Forties Pipeline System. The UK has a few other pipeline systems but this one is by far the largest and the most critical. Now this infrastructure, isn’t supposed to last forever. But when it goes you should have a plan. In the UK nobody talks about this. It’s taboo. A lot of people think “yeah but they won’t let that happen”… well it happened in Germany, and it happened in Japan. A lot of people want it to happen, and a lot of those people are in politics. So what replaces this? Nothing? Is the UK just going to go silently into the night?