The world is sleepwalking towards a multi-trillion dollar abyss — a nightmare already underway.
It promises to be the ultimate graveyard story — the sine qua non of the illusion of free air and sunlight. By 2030, fully 85–90% of the 1.3 million (equivalent) turbines operating today (GWEC 2025) will reach the end of useful operations.
To just maintain the status quo, they will all need to be replaced in a 15-20 year window that straddles the 2050 net zero deadline. That’s roughly 35,000–40,000 turbines per year to be decommissioned, recycled (or graveyarded) and replaced. This will then lead to a second, even more costly build-out - on top of the one we’re still paying for.
At the same time, 5–10 billion solar panels (2 TW installed today) will also be retired, triggering hundreds of billions in scrapping, replacing, recycling and burying.
Wind decommissioning alone will cost $90–150 billion globally ($150–250 k per turbine, offshore will be double). New turbine costs (for 2025–2050) could easily hit $3–4 trillion — on top of what we’re already spending.
As for the composite blades, 1.5–2 million units - mostly non-recyclable - will be heading to landfill graveyards or incineration. As for critical minerals, each 3–5 MW turbine needs 2 tonnes of rare-earth permanent magnets (NdPr, Dy). Demand could triple while China still refines 80% of global supply.
All of this must happen as public subsidies fade, fossil-fuel restrictions tighten (diesel still powers 86% of mining equipment) and private capital becomes pickier, after years of thin or negative returns in renewables.
The coming 'replace-everything-again' phase will demand a WWII-scale industrial mobilisation with far less political goodwill.
Alexis de Tocqueville – Redeeming the French:)
The Frenchman who understood America better than most Americans, and Europe better than it has ever understood itself.
1. In 1831, a young French aristocrat sails to America ostensibly to study the prison system. What he actually does is cross the civilizational divide – and spends nine months trying to understand why America works. Democracy in America is the result: the most penetrating analysis of the Anglo-Saxon tradition ever written, by someone who grew up in the other one.
2. What he sees in America is Locke and Smith and Burke implemented in practice. A society that built freedom from the bottom up — townships, voluntary associations, local institutions — rather than from the top down by enlightened decree. Americans, he observes, join together constantly, spontaneously, without waiting to be organized: to build a road, start a church, solve a local problem. This horizontal self-organization is the immune system of a free society. It is precisely what the French Enlightenment systematically destroyed by concentrating everything in the state.
3. But Tocqueville sees the danger from inside the success. Democracy has its own pathology – not the guillotine this time, something quieter and harder to resist: the tyranny of the majority, the slow flattening of excellence into mediocrity, the pressure to conform that needs no secret police because it operates through social disapproval alone, without a single revolutionary. This is the diagnosis nobody wanted to hear in 1835. It is an accurate description of 2026.
4. France keeps producing the individuals who see clearly. Montesquieu looked at England and understood what France was missing. Bastiat understood markets better than most Englishmen. Tocqueville understood America better than most Americans. Raymond Aron understood the Soviet threat while Sartre was still praising it. All of them largely ignored at home. All of them vindicated everywhere else.
5. The pattern is consistent: France produces the diagnostic genius, then ignores the diagnosis in favor of the next beautiful abstraction. Great individuals. Wrong civilizational operating system. The Platonic gravitational pull is too strong – the addiction to the elegant idea overrides the evidence of the actual result. Which is why the tradition that saved the world kept being built in Edinburgh and London and Philadelphia, not in Paris.
6. Tocqueville’s concept of civil society is his most practical contribution: the network of voluntary associations — churches, clubs, local governments, independent institutions — that stand between the individual and the state. This is the buffer that prevents soft despotism. Destroy it — by making people dependent on the state for everything, by atomizing individuals until they have no horizontal relationships left — and the citizen becomes what the state always wanted: alone, dependent, and grateful.
7. Soft despotism is Tocqueville’s most prophetic concept – and the most precise description of where the West currently stands. Not the guillotine. Something quieter: a power that doesn’t tyrannize but infantilizes, that covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, that reduces citizens to a herd of timid animals of which the government is the shepherd. It doesn’t break your will. It renders it unnecessary. He wrote this in 1835. He was describing the European Union, the administrative state, the therapeutic culture, the regulatory apparatus that decides what you eat, say, heat your home with, and think about your children’s education.
Soft despotism is what Rousseau looks like when he wins slowly – not through revolution but through form-filling. And Tocqueville’s warning, the one nobody wanted to hear, was this: it gets less soft with time. The infantilized citizen, stripped of civil society, dependent on the state, no longer knows how to resist. At that point the softness is no longer necessary…
Laotian national Tou Lue Vang was convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota.
He was set to be deported until @GovTimWalz issued him a pardon.
Then, I revoked his legal status. @ICEgov has removed him from the U.S. and he will never endanger another American.
Statement on behalf of the Kirk Family:
The conclusion of the preliminary hearing marks an important step forward in the pursuit of justice for Charlie. Our family is grateful for the prayers, support, and kindness that has been extended to us, especially through these unimaginably painful and emotionally demanding proceedings.
As difficult as these last few days have been, it brings our family comfort to know that the world has witnessed the overwhelming evidence of what occurred to Charlie that day.
Nothing will ever undo the loss of our beloved Charlie. As this case moves into its next phase, we pray that truth will continue to be heard through a process that is fair, transparent, and grounded in the facts.
There is a particular stench to the current moment…the sweet rot of lies dressed as revelation and the digital coliseum where the crowd cheers every new hidden hand.
People do not merely believe conspiracy theories. They need them.
They need the secret architecture that turns their powerlessness into secret knowledge and their ordinary failures into proof that the game was rigged against them by someone far more powerful and far more evil than the mundane machinery of history and human frailty.
They feel superior to everyone when they look stupid as fuck to the intelligent people who know better.
That is the wound and the drug at once.
The forensic lens does not flinch from this.
It names it.
It traces the neurological hijack…the narcissistic supply…the philosophical cowardice that prefers the grand lie to the harder sovereignty of evidence and ambiguity.
What follows is not another theory about theories. It is the scalpel applied to the living specimen.
The Candace Owens cult…with its baroque webs of antisemitic control narratives…its moon-landing denial…its tunnel conspiracies around political assassinations…and its leader’s grandiosity feeding on the adulation of the newly enlightened…serves as the perfect clinical blueprint.
Not because it is unique.
Because it is textbook. Because it reveals in high definition the exact pathology that turns frightened and arrogant minds into armies of the deluded.
Read it with the same rigor you would bring to any other autopsy.
The body on the table is cultural. The cause of death is the refusal to sit with uncertainty. The weapon was the conviction that feeling superior to the sheep was the same thing as being right.
The piece below does the cutting.
I did not write it to comfort.
I wrote it because the blood is already in the streets and more is coming if we keep choosing the lie that flatters us over the truth that demands we grow the fuck up.
Link in comments free for all to read...
@MikeRogersForMI .
we need a Senator that will work boldly, tirelessly, to clean this crime mess up, permanently, restore law and order!!! ... Unlike @SenatorSlotkin@SenGaryPeters https://t.co/0fcYoINhqD
@MikeRogersForMI ... and we need a Senator that will work boldly, tirelessly, to clean this crime mess up, permanently, restore law and order!!! ... Unlike @SenatorSlotkin@SenGaryPeters https://t.co/0fcYoINhqD
@MikeRogersForMI ... we need a Senator that will work boldly, tirelessly, to clean this crime mess up, permanently, restore law and order!!! ... Unlike @SenatorSlotkin@SenGaryPeters https://t.co/0fcYoINhqD
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
I just got off the phone with Secretary @HowardLutnick. Gordie Howe Bridge will be open soon.
I’ve been working with the White House to ensure we stop Chinese cars from pouring across the border and threatening Michigan manufacturing. A new deal is coming in the next few days. The Secretary assures me that America will get a better financial deal and that there will be no Chinese cars pouring over that bridge.
This is a big win for Michigan—and exactly why Michigan needs a U.S. Senator who knows how to deliver for our state.
@MikeRogersForMI ... and we need a Senator that will work boldly, tirelessly, to clean this crime mess up, permanently, restore law and order!!! ... Unlike @SenatorSlotkin@SenGaryPeters https://t.co/0fcYoINhqD
BREAKING: Detroit Audit Findings
By the numbers:
- 155,000 envelopes examined
- 26,000+ ballots allegedly counted unlawfully (17% error rate)
- Detroit votes 18:1 Democrat
- Biden's MI margin: ~154,000
If Democrat-controlled cities across Michigan (e.g. Ann Arbor, Lansing, Muskegon, Flint, Hamtramck) had similar error rates, the statewide impact dwarfs the margin of victory.
The question isn't IF.
It's HOW MANY.
#AuditMichigan #ElectionIntegrity
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@RealLindellTV@RealLindellTV@HarmeetKDhillon@realJoeHoft@gatewaypundit@yehuda_miller@DeluxePsypher@timlovesann@PattyLovesTruth@MIGOP
🔥 HELL YES! War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirms he will PERSONALLY intervene in the suspension of the American Apache gunship pilots who did an EPIC flyover in SC
THANK YOU, @PeteHegseth, and thank you to @mattvanswol for sounding the alarm on this.
GOD BLESS THESE PATRIOTS! 🇺🇸
🚨 BREAKING: High-quality surveillance video has just been shown in court showing Tyler Robinson TAKING THE SHOT at Charlie Kirk
Robinson is SCREWED.
He’s now on his way back to his cage, via a HEAVILY armed escort.
Press were not allowed to stream the video. Only those in the courtroom, including members of the public and family members, were allowed to see the video.
This week was an absolute BEATDOWN for the defense.
The death penalty is staring him directly in the eyes.
Next hearing is set for September 1st here in Utah
@nicksortor “… and @SenatorSlotkin@SenGaryPeters repeatedly run cover for these lunatics & their apologists, all at the expense of US Citizens, children - Peters retirement can't come too soon and we need to vote Slotkin out asap ... need new MI Sens @MikeRogersForMI
@nicksortor and @SenatorSlotkin@SenGaryPeters run cover for these criminals at the expense of US Citizens, children - Peters retirement cant come too soon and we need to vote Slotkin out asap ... need new MI sens @MikeRogersForMI