Battlegrounds Watch is a collection of stories and topics in today’s news Chuck & Sam are tuning in to.
CNBC: Germany shuts down last nuclear power plants, some climate scientists are aghast
Nuclear power is the cleanest, most reliable source of energy on the planet, and produces far fewer environmental impacts from start to finish than “green” renewables like solar or wind. It’s also cheap, base-loaded, and new recycling techniques are massively reducing the waste that must be stored from it. Environmentalists don’t care.
“A collection of esteemed scientists, including two Nobel laureates and professors from the likes of MIT and Columbia, made a last-minute plea in an open letter published on April 14 on the nuclear advocacy group’s website, RePlaneteers, to keep the reactors operating.”
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Chaos is coming to the Southern Border
The expiration of the Title 42 “remain in Mexico” policy is expected to double illegal crossings virtually overnight. It’s a humanitarian crisis, but not the one a lot of Democrats seem to think. Nobody crosses the Southern border anymore without paying off one of the cartels and de-facto open borders policies are enriching them enormously. Meanwhile, the people being trafficked are often essentially kept as indentured labor, used in sex-trafficking schemes, and forced to serve as drug mules.
“According to internal Department of Homeland Security estimates, once the Border Patrol loses its authority to return immigrants back to Mexico through Title 42, daily apprehensions are expected to double to almost 13,000, meaning a record-high 400,000 immigrants will be arrested illegally crossing the southern border every month.”
POLITICO: DeSantis is in a rut. His trek to DC didn’t help
Ron DeSantis’s nascent, unannounced Presidential campaign was flying high a few short months ago, and many Republicans wary of another Trump run want to get on the bandwagon, but few are. Trump’s position has improved vastly, and the DeSantis campaign appears to be struggling.
“While DeSantis stays out of the race — he’s planning an entrance after Florida’s legislative session ends in the coming weeks — Trump has begun to consolidate support. The former president and a PAC boosting him are using the time to hammer away at the Florida governor.”
SKY NEWS: UK, NATO commitments to Ukraine threatened by ‘broken’ military procurement system
Experts in Britain are questioning whether the UK and NATO have the supply chain capability to carry out their commitments to Ukraine, and the answer is increasingly “no”.
“In a damning assessment of the Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) ability to purchase equipment, the Public Accounts Committee said it had "serious doubts" that a rolling, 10-year procurement plan is "agile and responsive enough to react to this more dangerous international situation".
RELATED: USA FACTS: How much money has the U.S. Given Ukraine?
Short answer, $115 billion or about 2% of the annual U.S. federal budget
OCPA THINK: Oklahoma University says DEI to permeate business school
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives are little more than a green & race baiting scam designed to massively increase bureaucracy and intrusive political correctness in every aspect of life. University leadership everywhere are shooting themselves in the feet, crippling the intellectual curiosity and diversity of their institutions, while corporations are spending billions that should go to workers who do productive things and shareholders who are putting their savings at risk and losing money to the DEI grift. All this while the movement exhibits actual racism in its worldview…
“The evidence presented in this Backgrounder demonstrates that university DEI staff are better understood as political activists with a narrow and often radical political agenda rather than promoters of welcoming and inclusive environments,” the researchers concluded. “Many DEI staff are particularly unwelcoming toward Jewish students who, like the vast majority of Jews worldwide, feel a strong connection to the state of Israel. The political activism of DEI staff may help explain the rising frequency of antisemitic incidents on college campuses as well as the association between college and graduate education and higher levels of antisemitic attitudes. Rather than promoting diversity and inclusion, universities may be contributing to an increase in anti-Jewish hatred by expanding DEI staff and power.”
REAL CLEAR POLITICS: Woke revolution is erasing the past
There is a long history around the globe of militant movements based on Marxian philosophies erasing the re-writing history to suit their political agenda. In the U.S., that effort is in full swing…
“Amnesia is the crucial psychological state for the woke revolution. In order to control thought, language, and reality itself, the left must strip people of the ability to evaluate the future plans it is peddling through reference to past experience. Those who do not remember what happened last week, last year, or a century ago are much easier to manipulate…If you do not know that the American revolution was fought for human freedom, then you might accept the risible claim of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, that its goal was the preservation of slavery.
TELEGRAPH: Meet the “elite” couples breeding to save humanity
If you want to just give this piece a good eyeroll, we understand. On the other hand, declining birth rates – particularly in Western societies and among the most educated populations – really are leading the world down the Idiocracy path, with the human population experiencing declining average IQs for the first time in recorded history. Still…these people…ugh…
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