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Rio Tinto restarts Oyu Tolgoi Mongolia underground operations after seismic event triggered a rockfall adjacent to production zone, causing ground vibrations but resulting in no structural damage to the underground cave or operating infrastructure.
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Europe helped to resurrect a giant (China) it would be unable to control. Today, Europe’s future looks dire. And for all the hawkish cries of politicians and intellectuals in its capitals...Europe today looks more like a plucked chicken.
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Canada’s New National Security Plan: Will Ottawa Confront the Real Threat? open.substack.com/pub/thebur…
Ottawa is imposing extreme compliance costs on Alberta’s oil and gas industry for a theoretical cooling signal that cannot be measured, while assigning billions in benefits to that undetectable change.
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According to Kovrig, detainees are frequently seized without warning, blindfolded or hooded, handcuffed, and transported to undisclosed facilities. Their families are often left without information about their whereabouts.
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FINTRAC gets a "F" from Canadian Auditor General.
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Weak oversight in providing financial data and information to law enforcement agencies "limited FINTRAC’s ability to help detect, prevent, and deter money laundering and the financing of terrorist activities,” she said. theepochtimes.com/world/fint… via @epochtimes
AG's Oct. 29 report said the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) “did not effectively carry out” its role in overseeing compliance with the country’s anti-money laundering laws.
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Canada's "alignment" with the EU is a recipe for decline.
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Have policymakers in the EU, the UK and US states never heard of El Hierro?
A small island with 11,000 residents and plenty of wind. An ideal testing ground for the promise of 100% renewable electricity, before making millions of people depend on it.
They installed wind turbines with more than twice the island’s average electricity demand in capacity, plus pumped hydro storage. Yet in 2025, this system supplied just 44% of its electricity. Diesel supplied the rest.
@mhtncontrarian explains why: during prolonged periods of low wind, the upper reservoir empties. Then the diesel generators have to take over.
If this setup cannot deliver on its promise on a small, windy island, why are politicians so confident it will work on a vastly larger scale?
They keep pushing ahead, with millions of people’s electricity supply at stake.
The projections also point to a possible increase in the likelihood of high-run-off events, including those that could heighten flood risks.
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Taiwan Seeks Cross-Party Support for Anti-Infiltration Act Amendments to Counter Transnational Repression visiontimes.com/2026/10/26/t…
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即将出版：保护卫士关于 #指居 的新书，收录了康明凯、成蕾、李明哲等人的贡献与内容。第二版的《失踪人民共和国》聚焦这套遍布全国的失踪制度下的外国受害者，其中包括該制度被用作人質外交工具的情況。
China is working to constrain India's rise through territorial pressure along the Himalayan frontier and restrictions on critical industrial supplies, including solar technology, to stop India from competing.
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Sir Henri Deterding, the controversial and outspoken founder of Royal Dutch Shell, haunts the website. Wise to all the knowledge of Shell, and its shellanigans, he delivers informative and satirical insight to anything about Shell. royaldutchshellplc.com/2026/…
This episode in which he discusses "Shell’s Green Future Moves to China — Just as Its German Battery Dream Goes Bust" is worth the read.
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When Green Agenda Bureaucrats Decide Where Energy Capital Flows, Hidden Costs Mount and The West Loses open.substack.com/pub/thebur…
Fossil fuels provide 86 percent of global energy consumption, higher than in 1973, when the world started to seek alternative energy, and there is no scalable alternative available yet.
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Wind and solar are intermittent and geographically restricted; they provide 2–3% of global energy needs, they depend on fossil fuels to deliver reliable power. Chopping away at our primary energy sources with no viable replacement is dangerously bad policy.open.substack.com/pub/thebur…