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After 30 years and plenty of talk about being ‘competitive’ with coal, gas and nuclear, wind and solar are still being treated like untamable toddlers. The subsidies they begged for in the beginning were meant to help so-called ‘infant’ industries get on their feet. But, even now, the mere mention of reducing subsidies turns them into bawling brats, furious at the prospect of ever having to make an honest dollar.

Even when the subsidy stream is flowing strong and steady, the rent-seekers that profit from the greatest economic and environmental scam of all time are always pressing for more. As John Constable explains below.

Demands for more subsidy expose the illusion of falling wind power costs
Net Zero Watch
John Constable
1 March 2023

Net Zero Watch is highlighting the fact that claims of falling wind power costs are contradicted by demands from wind power operators for additional subsidies on…

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth ~

After one of the biggest banks in the technology startup lending space collapsed last week, President Joe Biden tried to reassure Americans that their banking system was still safe. But if bank examiners are not doing their job, which was the fundamental problem in the Silicon Valley Bank crash, then customers’ deposits are not safe.

Bank documents also seem to indicate that corporate leadership may have been more interested in things like environmental sustainability, climate change, and diversity initiatives than risk management.

The collapse of one of the biggest banks in the technology startup lending space last week shows that banks need to focus on risk management, not environmental and social justice policies. Pictured: The media interviews a Silicon Valley Bank customer outside of the bank office on March 13, 2023, in Santa Clara, California. Days after the bank collapsed, customers are lining up to try…

By Tim Graham ~

Tommy Christopher at Mediaite boasted of exclusive access to Muslim comedian and Sirius XM satellite radio host Dean Obeidallah asking White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if Congress should give the FCC the power to remove their er, broadcast license after the cable news network’s communications were revealed in the Dominion defamation lawsuit.

DEAN OBEIDALLAH: Look, the FCC the way the law is right now, it does not cover cable news. We all know that. Broadcast news, though. It does. It, it’s called distortion. And it has to be you have to show that they said something false on purpose they knew was false and they could be sanctioned. They can lose their license on a network. It doesn’t apply to cable.

Do you think there’s any chance to explore the idea of expanding that? It would take an act of Congress, to expand the FCC’s mandate to…