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It's a project reminiscent of the movie Snowpiercer, in which governments institute a global experiment to spray chemicals into the atmosphere to stop global warming and end up creating a new ice age instead.  Once again reality is downstream from fiction as the UK is set to bankroll an experiment to "dim the sun".  This goal will be pursued in field trials which could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere, or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine.

The project is being considered by scientists as a way to prevent "runaway climate change", despite the fact that there is zero evidence to support the claim of runaway climate change.

Aria, the Government’s advanced research and invention funding agency, has set aside £50 million for projects, which will be announced in the coming weeks. 

Prof Mark Symes, the program director for Aria (Advanced Research and Invention Agency), said there would be “small controlled outdoor experiments on particular approaches”. 

“We will be announcing who we have given funding to in a few weeks and when we do so we will be making clear when any outdoor experiments might be taking place,” he said. 

“One of the missing pieces in this debate was physical data from the real world. Models can only tell us so much.  Everything we do is going to be safe by design. We’re absolutely committed to responsible research, including responsible outdoor research.  We have strong requirements around the length of time experiments can run for and their reversibility and we won’t be funding the release of any toxic substances to the environment.”

One major area of research is Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM), which includes Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) whereby tiny particles are released into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight.

Another potential project is Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) in which ships would spray sea-salt particles into the sky to enhance the reflectivity of low-lying clouds.

Climate scientists say efforts to reduce carbon emissions are not working fast enough and that levels are "too high", leading to irregular weather patterns and eventually the temperature "tipping point" in which an exponential crisis is created by heat creating carbon and then carbon creating more heat.  

The problem is that nothing in this theory is backed by causational evidence or the climate history of the Earth.  In other words, climate scientists are siphoning up government grant money to create solutions to a problem that doesn't exist.

The vast majority of climate change theories are based on data collected since the 1880s - 140 years of data is a insignificant window of time in the long lifespan of the Earth's climate. 

When we look at the temperature data over millions of years, we find that today's temps are near the lowest in our planet's history (we just exited an Ice Age not long ago and climate scientists want us to believe it's too hot).

When comparing millions of years of carbon data to parallel temperature data, it becomes clear that there is no correlation between carbon levels and global warming.  This graph also proves that carbon and temperature levels can rise and fall independently of human industry and human industry's effects on these patterns is negligible or non-existent.

There is also no data to prove correlation or causation between carbon emissions and extreme weather patterns.  The entirety of the climate change theory is based on lab models with no corresponding examples in nature.  It is pure hysteria.  

This makes the use of atmospheric manipulation by governments all the more disturbing.  If they truly are trying to "dim the sun" for the sake of preventing global warming, then they are doing so based on a delusion.  There is also the possibility that they know man-made climate change is nonsense and these experiments serve another purpose.  In either case, they should be stopped.  No one voted for politicians to blot out the sun (or to find a way to blot out the sun).  No one gave them permission to pump particulates or chemicals into the sky.  Their actions constitute a radical violation of the public trust.

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

Nina Jankowicz, the former head of Biden’s infamous Disinformation Governance Board, was “back with a vengeance.” 

After the outcry over the board led to its elimination, Jankowicz did what many of the displaced disinformation experts have done: she peddled her dubious skills to Europeans and others like a wandering ronin without a master. 

Now, Jankowicz has appeared before one of the most anti-free speech bodies in the world — the European Union — to call upon those 27 countries to fight against the United States, which she called a world threat.

How the “Mary Poppins of disinformation” came to alight upon Europe is a familiar tale. 

The European Union has become the global hub for censorship efforts and, after she departed from the government, Jankowicz made a beeline for Europe.

I have been a long critic of Jankowicz, who became an instant Internet sensation due to a musical number in which she sang “You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation” in a TikTok parody of the song “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” 

After the Biden Administration reluctantly disbanded her board, she later moved to join a European group as a foreign agent to continue her work to block views that she considers disinformation.

The false portrayal of the United States as a lawless, autocratic nation no doubt thrilled the Europeans. 

In announcing her heading a private disinformation group called the American Sunlight Project, Jankowicz used the same hysteria to attract donors, insisting that “Disinformation knows no political party. Its ultimate victim is our democracy.”

Of course, Jankowicz herself has been accused of disinformation that served one particular party. 

She was previously criticized for allegedly spreading disinformation and advocating censorship.

The ultimate irony is that Jankowicz knows that she can count on many of us in the free speech community to support her right to spread such sensational and inflammatory information. 

She has every right to trash this country and the results of the election.

Jankowicz has clearly found a home with globalists in Europe where our “Mary Poppins of Disinformation” is “practically perfect in every way”

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Jonathan Turley is the author of best-selling book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

Via Remix News,

A Black footballer from Cameroon mocked Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, insulted the police, boasted that he eats for free and does not pay rent, and that he “f**ks Italian girls.” He has now been fired from the Cluentina Calcio football club in Italy.

The striker, Domingue Ibii Ngwang, filmed himself in front of a police vehicle parked in front of the police headquarters in Macerata. He made the extremely vulgar and pedophilic remarks towards Meloni’s 7-year-old daughter.

“Meloni, I heard that you have a beautiful daughter… I’m black, handsome and hot, with my handsome and hot brother. We eat for free, we sleep for free, we don’t pay rent and then f**k Italian girls.”

???? An African migrant has been fired from his Italian football team after threatening Giorgia Melon's 7-year-old daughter.

"Meloni, I heard that you have a beautiful daughter… I'm black, handsome and hot... We eat for free, we sleep for free, we don't pay rent and then we… pic.twitter.com/0RZIV5SzdR

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) April 23, 2025

Before making the statements, he offered to sell Salvini a police car for 50 cents in what appears to be an attempt to belittle Salvini and the police — a sort of sign of disrespect.

“Salvini, do you see this car? I’m selling it for 50 cents,” says Ngwang.

The football club, which is located in the Marche region, has now terminated the 27-year-old Cameroonian striker’s contract due to the sexist and violent remarks, according to Italian newspaper La Gazzetta.

Salvini commented about the video himself on Instagram, calling the footballer an “idiot.”

“Asd Cluentina Calcio totally dissociates itself from the contents represented in the video published by its member,” wrote the team after terminating the footballer’s contract.

“We also communicate our intention to immediately terminate the contract that binds us to his sporting performances, as we consider his serious statements to be deeply damaging to our reputation. 

We recall, in fact, that Asd Cluentina Calcio has distinguished itself in the football panorama of the territory for over 50 years for inclusion, solidarity and friendship. 

For this reason, we firmly believe it is necessary to nip in the bud any undue association between the violent and unacceptable contents expressed by Ibii Ngwang in the video and the history of Asd Cluentina Calcio, reserving, in the event of undue instrumentalization, the right to protect our image in the competent offices.”

The police are also investigating the case. His threat towards Meloni’s daughter may be especially problematic.

Read more here...

Sometimes, especially when stocks are tumbling, bond yields are soaring and the dollar looks like it is about to lose its reserve currency (and be replaced by what: the yuan? the euro? the turkish lira?), it is easy to forget what is the driving motive behind Trump's trade war. And in a nutshell, it is this chart: US debt which at $37 trillion is unsustainable, and which is growing at a pace which everyone - not just the bipartisan CBO, but also the Fed, the IMF, Elon Musk, the shoeshine boy, literally everyone - knows for a fact is catastrophically unsustainable.

But while everyone knows something has to be done to avoid a devastating catastrophe, until Trump came along nobody would dare do a thing to change the current status quo for the obvious abovementioned reasons: any attempt to restructure or even modestly adjust US debt-funded "growth", which transforms roughly $1 trillion of debt every 100 days into less than $200 billion of economic output...

... would lead to tumbling stocks, soaring bond yields and the dollar trading like it's the Turkish lira. Kinda like right now.

But the US had to start somewhere, and Trump did that amid the now familiar howls of terror from market participants (how dare Trump do something that trades long-term viability for short-term pain), the co-opted mainstream media and of course establishment economists, all of whom agree something must be done... just not this and not now.

Still, with nothing to lose, the 2nd term president has started off on a path of doing something, and while nobody knows where and how it all ends, we have some good news: it is starting to bear fruit, in the form of a huge surge in customs revenues.

According to today's Daily Treasury Statement, on April 22, the US collected a record $11.7 billion in "customs and certain excise taxes"...

... the biggest one day haul on record. To be sure, this is not a "one-day collection", but rather is a monthly accrual and is more indicative of the monthly total (which stands at about $15.4 billion).

But hHowever one looks at it, the amount is certainly impressive and is double the previously monthly total, and about six times greater than the pre-Trump 1.0 monthly total in the $2BN ballpark. And this is just the start: once more layered tariffs start being collected, the monthly customs revenue will double again, rising to $25bn, $30bn, and so on... numbers which start to matter in the grand scheme of things.

In other words, while one can rage against Trump's policies and mean tweets, he is the only one who is doing something to prevent an outcome which everyone agrees will be catastrophic... but because it is "some time in the future" as opposed to pain right now, everyone would much rather have the next generation of Americans foot the bill and deal with the catastrophic fallout. Or, one can do something about it, and while it will take much, much more than even the above stunning doubling in customs collections, the chart above represents what America has long needed: a painful start in the right - and sustainable - direction.

Trump vs. Zelensky Round Two? Tensions initially looked to have cooled after the Zelensky-Vance-Trump February 28 verbal blow-up and showdown at the Oval Office (see clip below), but the spat is heating up once again, and is fast getting personal.

President Trump has slammed President Zelensky in a Wednesday post on Truth Social, saying of the Ukrainian leader, "if he wants Crimea, why didn’t they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired"... and "He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country."

The fiery denunciation appears in direct response to Zelensky the day prior rejecting Washington demands that Ukraine be ready to formally recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea. Trump continued, "It's inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about!"

The White House has this week been making it clear that the United States is ready to walk away from the peace process if it doesn't have willing partners. All of this pressure seems aimed squarely at Kiev, given also Vice President Vance's Wednesday remarks while in India. 

"We’ve issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it’s time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process," Vance told the press pool while on the trip. "The only way to really stop the killing is for the armies to both put down their weapons, to freeze this thing and to get on with the business of actually building a better Russia and a better Ukraine." Freezing the war now would certainly give Russian forces a huge advantage, given the immense territory in the East they now hold.

Trump in the fresh social media post further demanded that now is the time to "GET IT DONE" - referring to achieving a lasting settlement. And he coupled this with another swipe at Zelensky, saying the man has "no cards to play" - which has been a US admin theme going back to February.

"I look forward to being able to help Ukraine, and Russia, get out of this Complete and Total MESS, that would have never started if I were President!" - Trump concluded in the post.

Trump is clearly not happy in the wake of Zelensky's Tuesday remarks wherein he asserted that Ukraine will not legally recognize Russia's occupation of Crimea under any circumstances,

"There is nothing to talk about. This violates our Constitution. This is our territory, the territory of the people of Ukraine," Zelensky told reporters.

But Trump is now calling this out as essentially BS - saying that no, this is the very thing in question that must be talked about if the war is to end. On a practical level, Russia is never going to give up Crimea regardless, given it has long been the historic home of the Russian Navy's Black Sea fleet, and has an overwhelming Russian-speaking population.

This was "Round One"...

.@VP: "Do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?"@POTUS: "You don't have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards ... You're… pic.twitter.com/iTYyAmfuCJ

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 28, 2025

Will Zelensky respond to this latest dressing down by Trump? His PR handlers are likely urging him not to. The last time this happened in the wake of Zelensky's visit to the White House, the US cut off weapons supplies and intelligence-sharing to Kiev for several days. But this spat and sparring could blow up further yet. Zelensky expressed hope that he could meet with Trump while in Rome for the Pope's funeral on Saturday, but this is now looking less likely.

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Boeing reported first-quarter results that Goldman analysts described as "improved," but the real headline this morning isn't the earnings—it's CEO Kelly Ortberg's CNBC interview, in which he revealed that China has halted aircraft deliveries.

In a televised interview with CNBC's Squawk on the Street, CEO Ortberg stated that Chinese airlines had "in fact stopped taking delivery of aircraft due to the tariff environment." He noted that the aviation giant would begin marketing the commercial jets to other carriers if deliveries were prolonged. 

"We're working with our customers right now, we're not going to wait too long," Ortberg said in the interview, adding, "We'll give the customers an opportunity if they want to take the airplanes. That's what we'd prefer to do. But if not, we're going to remarket those airplanes to people who want them."

Aircraft rejected by Chinese airlines (read: here) could be headed to Air India Ltd. Bloomberg noted that through the end of March, the airline had accepted 41 737 Max jets built initially for Chinese airlines. 

Boeing CFO Brian West told investors that Chinese customers represent about 10% of the commercial backlog. He noted that if tariff impacts expand beyond China, then additional problems could arise for the planemaker.  

The possible tariff fallout comes as the struggling planemaker prepares to lift the 737 Max and 787 models in the coming months. The CEO was adamant about not letting trade war woes "derail the recovery" of Boeing. 

In an earlier earnings release, Boeing confirmed that plane production would soon rise as first-quarter results showed earnings and cash consumption improvements. 

Goldman analysts, including Noah Poponak, gave clients a first look at the earnings report, commenting that the results showed improvement. 

Bottom line: BA 1Q25 results show improvement in the business. Commercial aircraft production rate plan commentary was held, defense margins are positive, services margins beat, and free cash is ahead of consensus and guidance. Yesterday the company announced the sale of portions of Digital Aviation Solutions, at a multiple higher than its own, which will help accelerate balance sheet deleveraging.

Details: Revenue of $19.50bn is in line with FactSet at $19.46bn, and up 18% yoy. Core EPS of $(0.49) compares to consensus at $(1.18) and our $(0.83), driven primarily by revenue and margin at BDS. The BCA segment operating income of $(537)mn compared to our estimated $(406)mn. BDS margin of 2.5% is above our (4.0)% estimate. The BGS margin of 18.6% is 80bps above our estimate and up 40bps yoy. 1Q25 free cash flow is $(2.3)bn, ahead of us and consensus at $(3.7)bn. The company still expects to reach a rate of 38/month on 737 and 7/month on 787 this year.

1Q25 Results:

Poponak remained "Buy" rated on Beoing shares with a 12-month $213 price target:

Our 12-month price target of $213 is derived from targeting a 4.25% free cash flow yield on 2026E free cash, discounted back one year at 12%. Key risks: (1) the pace of air traffic growth, (2) supply chain ability to ramp-up production, and (3) contract operating performance within the defense segment.

Since the Max jet crashes and Covid, Boeing shares have been trading in a tight range. 

CEO Ortberg outlined Boeing's turnaround efforts in a press release: "Our company is moving in the right direction as we start to see improved operational performance across our businesses from our ongoing focus on safety and quality."