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Je sais seulement que je suis un mauvais chrétien.
Heureux de vivre dans la campagne provençale, je travaille dans un domaine viticole.
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[Renard Jean-Michel @Renardpaty]

Escrologie !!

L’énergie renouvelable nécessaire pour atteindre la neutralité carbone d'ici 2050, il faudrait :

[Renard Jean-Michel @Renardpaty]

- aux rythmes de production actuels

- près de 10.000 ans pour extraire suffisamment de lithium, 7.000 ans pour le vanadium, 1.700 ans pour le cobalt, 400 ans pour le nickel et près de
200 ans pour le cuivre.

Si des centaines de milliers de nouvelles mines ouvraient demain, nous épuiserions nos réserves bien avant d'atteindre l'objectif.

Les réserves mondiales de cuivre sont estimées à 800 millions de tonnes, alors que la neutralité carbone en requiert la somme colossale de 4.500 milliards de tonnes.
Il en va de même pour le nickel : les réserves s'élèvent à 95 millions de tonnes, mais nous en aurons besoin de
940 millions.
Quant au lithium, les réserves ne sont que de 22 millions de tonnes, alors qu'il en faut 944 millions.

Les chiffres sont sans appel.

La neutralité carbone n'est pas un plan, c'est juste est un fantasme.

[Ze Clint @ZeClint]

L’inadaptation au changement climatique que les ecolos nous imposent est en train de leur peter à la gueule .

Les efforts sur les gaz à effet de serre les francais les ont déjà fait !!! On est le pays le plus Green du monde !

Bloquer le nucléaire : NON !
Bloquer les clims : NON !
Bloquer l’entretient des massifs : NON !
Bloquer la création de réserves massives d’eau ( lacs et autres ) : NON !
Etc .

Tous ces verrous écologistes débiles doivent sauter !

[Claire Langoulant - Royaliste Légitimiste @ClaireRoya14724]

🚨 À 72 ans, Damien Tabard, chauffeur de car scolaire, a été licencié après avoir refusé de respecter certains arrêts prévus. Il préférait déposer des élèves devant leur domicile pour assurer leur sécurité.

Après 17 ans de service, son employeur lui reprochait notamment des "arrêts sauvages" et une insubordination. Damien expliquait pourtant vouloir éviter qu'une collégienne de 12 ans ne marche 650 mètres, de nuit, le long d'une route départementale sans trottoir.

Le 20 mai 2026, les prud'hommes de Limoges ont confirmé son licenciement pour faute grave. Il a choisi de ne pas faire appel et devra verser 500 € à son ancien employeur. 🤬🤬🤬

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Germany did this to itself. Germany backed the 2014 coup, ignored its own commitments as a guarantor of the unity government in Kiev, cut itself off from Russian gas, and then looked the other way after the U.S. destroyed Nord Stream. Germany could end its boycott of diplomacy and discuss how to repair the pan-European security architecture that it played a leading role in destroying.

[Tribune Populaire🌐 @TribunePop23]

🇫🇷🏥FLASH - Le gouvernement décidé de réduire des remboursements pour les "gros consommateurs" de soins.

Il y a quelques jours, ils votaient l’aide à mourir. Aujourd’hui, ils appellent les malades des « consommateurs ».

Le glissement n’a rien d’anodin.

[Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon]

THEM: We need many more data centers to beat China in the AI race!

ALSO THEM: China is just six months behind the US in the race for AI dominance!!

ME: The US has 4,542 active facilities (leading the global total by a wide margin). China has only 369. Yet China is only 6 months behind the US in AI development. In fact, China has fewer data centers than does Europe!

If data centers are so important for beating China, and we have 4,173 more data centers (and counting), how is it China is so close to beating us?

Is this really about beating China or are our so-called elites using this talking point to trick us into supporting more data centers which actually have little to do with China and much to do with maintaining their beloved surveillance state?

[Pr Chabriere @Pr_Chabriere_e]

Quelqu'un peut m'expliquer quelle est le problème avec les réservoirs d'eau.
Ca aide l'agriculture, ca apporte une biodiversité, protège des incendies
Pour rappel la plupart des étangs sont artificiels.

Les Dombes sont un endroit merveilleux pour la diversité aquatique et ornithologique.
Les manades en Camargue sont aussi gérée et inondée artificiellement.
...

[Dindon Fiscal @LeDindonFiscal]

🚨 Les élus EELV ont une responsabilité directe dans l’ampleur des incendies.

Pendant des années, la France maîtrisait les feux de forêt.

Les départs restaient limités. Les pompiers intervenaient vite grâce à un travail de prévention en amont : entretien, pistes, pare-feu.

Depuis 10 ans, tout a changé.

Les Associations écologistes et élus EELV bloquent systématiquement :
• l’entretien des forêts
• la création et l’élargissement des pistes d’accès
• les travaux demandés par la DFCI

Leur argument ? Couper un arbre mort ou créer une coupure de combustible, c’est déjà trop.

On l’a DÉJÀ vu en 2022 en Gironde justement 🤡

Ils se sont opposés à l’élargissement des pistes, au débroussaillement lourd et aux abattages nécessaires.

Résultat : les pompiers ont mis plus de temps à accéder au cœur du massif au moment critique.

Et ça continue partout en France.

Des gens qui ne connaissent pas le terrain veulent tout contrôler.

Puis, quand le feu devient incontrôlable, ils pointent uniquement le « réchauffement climatique ».

La réalité est plus simple :

beaucoup de ces incendies sont criminels ou accidentels.

Ce qui les transforme en catastrophes, c’est l’absence d’entretien et de préparation du massif.

Alors on fait quoi maintenant ?

[THIERRY D "ardéchois et français" @ThierryTout]

Ce 22 juillet, des plongeurs ont nettoyé la statue du Christ des Abysses, au large de l'Italie.
Ce monument en bronze de 2,5 mètres se dresse sur le fond marin depuis 1954, pour honorer ceux qui ont perdu la vie en mer durant la 2nde guerre mondiale.🙏

[Carlos Sánchez @Cyandeceres]

Viendo el mapa de los incendios, resulta que me ha dado por echar un ojo a las licitaciones de la zona y he encontrado algo interesante. En 2023 se planteó cerca de esta zona el Parque eólico Ágata (110 MW, 19 aerogeneradores de más de 200 m de altura). El promotor era Green Capital Development, y la
ubicación principal de los aerogeneradores era Peguerinos (Ávila).

La infraestructura de evacuación cruzaba hacia Madrid y
afectaba a áreas próximas a San Martín de Valdeiglesias y a zonas de protección (IBA “El Escorial-San Martín de Valdeiglesias”, pinares del Bajo Alberche, etc.).

El resultado fue una Declaración de Impacto Ambiental negativa (BOE de enero de 2023). El proyecto fue tumbado por el MITECO por sus impactos sobre avifauna, hábitats protegidos y paisaje.

Algo semejante ocurrió en Matarraña (Teruel) el año pasado. En julio de 2025 el Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica dictó Declaración de Impacto Ambiental desfavorable al proyecto original (parques Arlo, Céfiro, Paucali y Argestes). Pocas semanas después ocurrieron los incendios del verano pasado. Curiosamente, en julio de 2026 (hace escasas dos semanas) la empresa ha reactivado el proyecto con una versión modificada.

En este punto de la narración, tocaría hablar del fraude generalizado en las Declaraciones de Impacto Medioambiental (DIA) de empresas como Forestalia. Precisamente por ello están procesados en la actualidad Fernando Samper Rivas, Presidente y dueño de Forestalia, o Eugenio Domínguez Collado, Ex Subdirector General de Evaluación Ambiental del MITECO, por delitos de prevaricación ambiental, cohecho, organización criminal y blanqueo.

El fraude consiste en manipular el sistema de evaluación ambiental para que proyectos de renovables (principalmente eólicos y solares de Forestalia) obtuvieran DIA favorables de forma irregular. Entre los proyectos que salieron beneficiados del fraude de las DIA, el principal y más mediático es el Clúster del Maestrazgo (Teruel), considerado el mayor complejo eólico de España en tramitación. Se habla de alrededor de 52 proyectos de Forestalia (eólicos y solares) cuyas DIAs están bajo sospecha.
Muchos se sitúan en Aragón, especialmente Teruel y Zaragoza, zonas especialmente asoladas por incendios, tanto el año pasado como éste.

Además, precisamente Forestalia, saca una buena tajada llevándose los arboles quemados a sus plantas de biomasa. Esa madera suele venderse a precios muy inferiores a la madera sana, a veces a precio de “saneamiento” o incluso con ayudas públicas para su retirada. Puede llegar a plantas de biomasa a costes significativamente más bajos, especialmente si está cerca de la planta, debido al menor coste de transporte. Tal fue el caso del año pasado en los incendios del Bierzo, cuando la madera quemada se llevó a la central de biomasa de Cubillos del Sil, propiedad de Forestalia.

En definitiva, el fuego resulta muy rentable para algunas empresas pero muy costoso para los ciudadanos. El coste por hectárea de la extinción multiplica por 10 el coste de prevención (limpieza del monte, quemas controladas,etc.). Mantener el monte asalvajado favorece que los incendios cada vez sean más virulentos, y por tanto, es bueno para el modelo de negocio que describo. A mayor abundamiento, en muchas CCAA, los medios de extinción están privatizados, lo que sigue incentivando el negocio del fuego.

Este es el modelo de negocio en que pretenden convertir el monte de nuestro país. Quien quiera profundizar en este perverso sistema de incentivos que favorece que siga quemándose España, puede ver la entrevista que le hice precisamente ayer a @MetaforaVisual_ a colación de su documental "Ladrones de Fuego".

https://t.co/y8gCNZYYvn

[📜Echoes of Empire📜 @EchoesofEmpire_]

Photograph of a fallen soldier from the Battle of the Somme in 1916, taken by German soldier Walter Kleinfeldt

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

Father Larry Holland, a Catholic priest in Canada, was offered euthanasia twice after being hospitalized with a broken hip.

He was not terminally ill. Despite knowing that he was a priest and opposed to euthanasia, hospital staff suggested ending his life.

Today it’s “voluntary“ euthanasia. Tomorrow, forced. We must stop both.

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

“The demons are very anxious in their pursuit of souls, yet they quickly abandon their prey merely at the name of Mary.”

St. Bridget of Sweden 🕊️

[Collingwood 🇬🇧 @admcollingwood]

Let me get this straight. The G7 put an oil price cap on Russian oil to lower the amount Russia would get from oil sales, but then the US attacked Iran, which sent the price of oil skyrocketing, increasing Russia's oil income in July so far by 60%, so they're helping Ukraine target Russian refining and oil export facilities to reduce the money they can make from this, but are now worried that this, in combination with the Iran stuff, will cause a giant energy crisis that screws us all and so are emptying their strategic reserves into the market like a fly tipper on crystal meth? Have I got that right? Our war planners be like...

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Europeans should grasp a hard truth that the Brussels institutions are not a neutral referee or a servant of the peoples.

They form a self-reinforcing organism with its own metabolism, status hierarchies, and survival instincts.

Officials, commissioners, and permanent staff are selected, promoted, and insulated in ways that reward institutional expansion over national accountability.

Re-election pressures that constrain national politicians barely touch them.

Their incentives favor more directives, more funds under central control, more “European solutions,” and perpetual crisis management that justifies their existence.

This is why energy policy can be framed as moral imperative while deindustrializing the continent.

It is why successive sanctions packages are celebrated as resolve even as they raise costs for European manufacturers and consumers more than for the target.

It is why common borrowing and shared liabilities grow while fiscal rules are selectively enforced.

The project’s prestige and continuity rank higher than the balance sheets of households or the competitiveness of mid-sized firms in the provinces.

History is littered with multi-national administrations that began as coordinating bodies and ended as remote centers extracting legitimacy and resources from the periphery.

The EU is not exempt from that pattern.

When the interests of the institutional core diverge from those of the citizens who ultimately fund it, the core does not spontaneously correct course.

It elaborates new justifications, new competencies, and new layers of process.

Recognizing this distinction between the entity and the peoples is the starting point for any serious discussion of reform, restraint, or exit.

[Pierre Sautarel @FrDesouche]

Le vote est anonyme parce qu’une démocratie sait qu’un citoyen n’est jamais tout à fait libre lorsque son opinion peut être reliée à son identité, puis exposée à son employeur, à son entourage ou au pouvoir.

L’anonymat en ligne repose sur la même intuition. Il ne doit pas protéger les délits, mais il protège la parole contre les représailles. On peut identifier l’auteur d’une infraction sur décision de justice sans transformer chaque internaute en citoyen fiché.

La démocratie a inventé l’isoloir pour protéger le vote. Elle ne devrait pas supprimer son équivalent numérique, car surveiller le lieu où se forme le débat ou surveiller le vote revient, au fond, à s’attaquer à la même liberté politique.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Quite funny to see that 3 countries claim Fields Medal winner Hong Wang as theirs.

When in her case, as in the case of so many top researchers throughout history, the clear lesson is that greatness in science is almost always a collaborative product of multiple countries and cultures.

Even if you go back to Marie Curie: same thing, she wasn't originally French but Polish, studying first in Warsaw and then in Paris. Or Einstein who studied and worked in 4 countries. Or take Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal: she was born and educated in Iran, then did her PhD in the US.

There is obviously something special that opens the mind about being exposed to different scientific traditions and different ways of thinking.

Which all means that there is a special irony, at least in the case of France and the US, in both countries increasingly treating collaboration with China as a security threat while simultaneously celebrating a scientist whose brilliance is literally the product of that collaboration.

The US's National Science Foundation is even presently straight-up banning scientific collaboration with almost all Chinese scientists (https://t.co/a7tqA0fvN0) while Europe is doing the equivalent with its flagship Horizon Europe research program, barring Chinese institutions from its grants which, in effect, also bans scientific collaboration with China (https://t.co/LcR3GPsuHH).

In other words, both countries want to claim Hong Wang but both are actively fighting the scientific spirit of openness that produced her.

China is, somewhat ironically, moving in the opposite direction, continuing to "reform and opening up." China's NSFC, the Chinese equivalent of the US's NSF, continues to actively fund foreign researchers to come work in China across all fields (https://t.co/b33HD5KuxG).

Fields medals, as is the case of Nobel prizes, are very much lagging indicators, by 1 or 2 decades: Hong Wang left China in 2011, at a time when the situation was arguably the reverse of today - the West was open, China was relatively more closed.

Which means that 1 or 2 decades from now, don't be surprised if the Fields Medal goes to a French or American researcher who had to go to China to find the openness that produces the very best science.

[Dõn Caramello @DonCaramelloK]

@DrKwasniewski Too many people have this idea that Catholicism is whatever the Pope says it is. This legal positivism is utter poison to the soul of the Catholic Church which has always operated and understood itself through natural law. The Pope is merely a servant of what he received.

[Peter Kwasniewski @DrKwasniewski]

To understand the liturgical situation in the Church, one must understand the gradual hypertrophism of papal power. Let’s consider three important dates:

1264: the first time a pope ever created a feast for the universal Church

1570: the first time a pope ever promulgated a missal (and, in due course, other liturgical books)

1969: the first time a pope ever created a new liturgical rite.

For the first 12 centuries of the Church, Catholics followed their local liturgical rite and calendar, inherited from their forefathers. The pope had little to do with it *directly,* although the actual practice of Rome was very influential in the history of liturgical books. Corpus Christi was obviously a grand idea, from heaven itself, and there's no one other than a pope who could universalize it; but what’s striking to note is the (relative) liturgical independence of local churches for well over a millennium, something that continued well into the second millennium.

Then, due to upheavals in the Reformation period, the Church had to clean up shop. This meant, among other things, doubling down on authentic, traditional liturgy. Not surprisingly, an already-over-a-thousand-years-old rite in continuous use in Rome was chosen as the "gold standard." Pius V put his weight behind this not because it was *his* idea, much less his product, but precisely because it was venerable, immemorial, integrally preserved. It was an utterly reliable lex orandi.

And yet… prior to this, every altar in Christendom had had its own missal—often a hand-copied one, lovingly handed down, with occasional amendments in the margins to keep it useful. Prior to 1570, there was no missal in the world that had been personally approved by the pope. (Just let that sink in: for three-quarters of Church history, the pope was not involved in directing your liturgy; he was mentioned reverently in the Roman Canon and that's about it.) The shift from seeing liturgy as something you inherit from your forefathers—good because “it’s what we’ve always done”—to something given from the pope in Rome, as understandable as it was in the 16th-century turmoil, was an enormous legal, psychological, institutional shift.

And yet, even with this shift, another 400 years (just let that sink in) would pass in which the Church did nothing more than hand down this Roman heritage—even while other non-Roman rites and uses, such as the Ambrosian, the Dominican, the Carthusian, the Norbertine, continued on their merry way in various places, as per Pius V's exception clause.

Fast forward to 1969: now we have a pope, Paul VI, who, clean contrary to Pius V, is not giving us the venerable rite of tradition, but a new rite designed by committee, which he believes will be best for “modern man.” So powerful by now was the juggernaut of ultramontanism that many of the non-Roman rites and uses, after centuries of jealous preservation, simply caved in.

In one of his many ironic statements, the same Paul VI observed, in 1975, when the failure of the Council's new springtime was already apparent to him: “It is often said nowadays that the present century [the 20th] thirsts for authenticity. Especially in regard to young people it is said that they have a horror of the artificial or false and that they are searching above all for truth and honesty” (Evangelii Nuntiandi, no. 76).

Well, yes, that’s true, and even more true in the 21st century. As people search for (and discover) truth and honesty about divine worship, their horror of the artificial or false—of the “banal, on-the-spot fabrication”—only grows. And with it grows a healthy skepticism toward hyperpapalism.

Thus, we should rejoice in the hard-won reflourishing of the old Roman rite. We should rejoice at the gradual return of the Dominican and Norbertine uses. We should rejoice that a healthy traditionalism combined with a traditional pluralism has returned, for this is how the Church thought and behaved from apostolic and patristic times into the glorious Middle Ages and throughout the Counter-Reformation era. It is well that we should abide in this broader and deeper Catholicism.

Thus we will escape the complaint voiced by none other than Thomas Merton in 1967:

“Our great danger is to throw away things that are excellent, which we do not understand, and replace them with mediocre forms which seem to us to be more meaningful and which in fact are only trite. I am very much afraid that when all the dust clears we will be left with no better than we deserve: a rather silly, flashy, seemingly up-to-date series of liturgical forms that have lost the dignity and the meaning of the old ones.”