J.M. Ballester E.

Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last year. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear. Wind and solar triggered the collapse. Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every MW of that early loss coming from renewables. Gas and hydro remained stable until the cascade was already underway. The report calls it an unprecedented speed of blackout. This was a textbook inverter chain failure, with renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react. By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady. But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was... A systemic failure of weather-dependent power.

What the hell is going on in Manchester? Islamists on horseback and wearing armbands, are trying to ride people down in the streets. Guess what? The police are standing back and allowing this to happen. 🤨🤨🤨

🕯️🇵🇱On this day 86 years ago Stalin signed a decree to execute over 25,000 members of the Polish elite in the Katyn Massacre. Never forget what Moscow has always done, and still doing to its neighbors.

There is no "Islamic" golden age of science. Ibn Khaldun, Arab sociologist: "Only the Persians engaged in the task of preserving knowledge and writing systematic scholarly works. Thus the truth of the Prophet's statement becomes apparent, 'If knowledge was hanging from the highest stars in heaven, the Persians would attain it'..." Ibn Khaldun, the Arab father of sociology, continues: "It is a remarkable fact that with few exceptions, most Muslim scholars…in the intellectual sciences have been non-Arabs. Thus even the founders of (Arabic) grammar were Sibawaih and after him... all of them were of Persian… great jurists were Persians… ." Regarding the Islamic Golden Age of Science, Abbasid Caliph Mamun, who had an Iranian mother, defeated his brother Amin with an Iranian army and became the Caliph. He started the "Translation Movement", and science books from Persia, Greek Egypt, and conquered Roman territories were translated into one language, Arabic, which naturally caused a scientific boom. Not because of Islam, but because of Mamun, who fought the Abbasid nobility tooth and nail and defeated them. Go check the list of Islamic "fathers of sciences". Majority of them are Iranians, and a lot of the rest are Spanish. Kharazmi, Biruni, Avesina (Ibn Sina), Rhazes (Razi), Khayyam, Farabi, Majusi, Tusi, and Farabi, were all Iranians just to name a few. Not Islamic scientists. Most of them were actually labeled as Kafir by Islamists of their time. (If you don't recognize some of these names, add an "al" at the beginning of them and you might.) Also, there is no "Islamic architecture." What you have is Islam appropriating Iranian and Mesopotamian architecture. You see that dome on top of most mosques? That's signature Iranian architecture. And yes, the Taj Mahal is an example of Iranian architecture. The translation movement was immediately stopped by the Abbasids after al-Mamun and its effects died down in a few centuries. There was never another scientific boom in the Islamic world. I have searched every claim I made here and they seem to be well-established facts. I encourage you to research them and tell me if I'm wrong. This is not a flex about history. That's a stupid thing to do. I love my Arab friends and I hate tribalism. My issue is not even with Islam as a personal religion but with Islamism as a political and public force. I do believe in national identity, and I don't like lies, and Islamists have been spreading them for as long as I can remember. Islamists have one identity, Islam, no nationality exists under Islamism. If we are to step forward with open eyes, we have to recognize the false narratives we were fed for generations and know exactly where we come from. Photo on the left: The Armenian Cathedral in Isfahan, Vank. An example of Iranian, and not Islamic, architecture. Photo on the right: Inside the Taj Mahal, designed by an Iranian architect.

My old and dear friend Semyon Gluzman, the greatest anti-Soviet psychiatrist of all time, who spent ten years in the gulag for daring to call out abuse of proper medicine, has passed away. RIP Semyon.