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US Threatens To Quit IEA Over Green Energy Advocacy
18.02.2026, 18:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Threatens To Quit IEA Over Green Energy Advocacy By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The United States has threatened, once again, to quit the International Energy Agency (IEA) if the organization, created in the aftermath of the 1970s Arab oil embargo, doesn’t return to forecasting energy demand without strongly promoting green energy. “If...
Trump Is Strong-Arming the World Out of Climate Action
18.02.2026, 13:02 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Washington is leveraging its power to intimidate countries that are trying to protect the planet....
Italy Beckons The Rich: How Flat Taxes And Lifestyle Are Luring Global Millionaires
17.02.2026, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Italy Beckons The Rich: How Flat Taxes And Lifestyle Are Luring Global Millionaires Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Think of Italy, and wanderlust awakens immediately. Last year, over 140 million visitors experienced the beauty of the Amalfi Coast, enjoyed time at Lake Garda, in South Tyrol, Tuscany, or on the beaches of Sicily. Italy is a land of dreams...
Asians More Optimistic Than Most For Their Countries' Future
17.02.2026, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Asians More Optimistic Than Most For Their Countries' Future A recent Ipsos survey of 25,000 people across 30 countries shows Asians are on average more optimistic for the future of their countries than people from the rest of the world. When asked whether they believe things in their country are headed in the right direction or off on the wrong track...
Germany's Climate Policy Has Moved From Politics To The Courts... And The Economy Is Paying The Price
17.02.2026, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany's Climate Policy Has Moved From Politics To The Courts... And The Economy Is Paying The Price Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Germany is the political engine of the Green Deal, yet it continues to fall short of its own CO₂ reduction targets. Now Germany’s Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig has ordered the federal government to tighten its...
EU Prepares €4 Trillion Eurobond Push As Russia Eyes Dollar Comeback
17.02.2026, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Prepares €4 Trillion Eurobond Push As Russia Eyes Dollar Comeback Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The European Union is steering purposefully toward the introduction of Eurobonds. At the preparatory EU summit at Alden Biesen Castle in Belgium, numerous signs suggest that the multi-billion-euro Draghi plan could soon be set in motion. At the same time...
Germany's Elites Demand "Location Patriotism" As Green Industrial Policy Unravels
16.02.2026, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany's Elites Demand "Location Patriotism" As Green Industrial Policy Unravels Submitted by Thomas Kolbe As social glue and as a bond tying the individual to a higher purpose of existence, patriotism has acquired a dubious reputation in Germany after decades of culture war. The United Left has succeeded in amalgamating this binding and integrating...
India and Pakistan’s Water Politics Is Starting to Boil
16.02.2026, 10:57 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Climate stress is rewriting the region’s rules of water sharing....
Rubio Says US & Europe "Belong Together", Urges Alignment With Trump's Vision For Western Revival
14.02.2026, 21:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rubio Says US & Europe "Belong Together", Urges Alignment With Trump's Vision For Western Revival Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told European leaders on Feb. 14 that Washington is not walking away from the transatlantic alliance—but called for a renewed partnership that aligns with President Donald...
Demented: Councillor Pushes Kids To Send Valentine's Cards To Illegal Male Migrants
14.02.2026, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Demented: Councillor Pushes Kids To Send Valentine's Cards To Illegal Male Migrants Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A Green Party councillor in the UK has sparked outrage by announcing plans to take her young grandchildren to deliver handmade Valentine’s Day cards to adult male asylum seekers at a migrant camp. This comes amid widespread...
Newsom Tells Europe "Trump Is Temporary," Doubles Down On Failing Green Agenda
14.02.2026, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Newsom Tells Europe "Trump Is Temporary," Doubles Down On Failing Green Agenda California Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke at the Munich Security Conference earlier on Friday, telling European elites that President Trump is "temporary" and will be gone within three years. Newsom, noticeably angered by Trump's push for deregulation and the rollback of climate...
Stolen Land At The Grammys: How Hollywood Groupthink Threatens Democracy
14.02.2026, 04:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stolen Land At The Grammys: How Hollywood Groupthink Threatens Democracy Authored by Patrick Keeney via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary Among the consolations of youth is the certainty with which one holds beliefs about the world. There is comfort in the conviction that one’s moral bearings are firmly set, that one’s understanding of...
When It Comes To Climate And Energy, Let's Retire The Politics Of Fear
14.02.2026, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When It Comes To Climate And Energy, Let's Retire The Politics Of Fear Authored by Gary Abernathy via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In the latest example of the scare tactics favored by climate change alarmists, it was announced last month that 2025 “was the third-warmest in modern history, according to Copernicus, the European Union’s climate...
The Bigger Problem That The Tim Walz NGO Scandal Has Exposed
13.02.2026, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Bigger Problem That The Tim Walz NGO Scandal Has Exposed Authored by Edward Woodson via American Greatness, The Minnesota nonprofit fraud scandal, now expected to cost taxpayers more than $9 billion, is being dismissed by many as an isolated failure. However, this is far from the case, and writing it off as such would be a colossal mistake. What...
Putin Is Trolling European Leaders With His Proposal To Re-Converge With The US
13.02.2026, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Is Trolling European Leaders With His Proposal To Re-Converge With The US By Bas van Geffen, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank Russian officials have drafted a memo that pitches a re-convergence of US and Russian interests. The proposal consists of seven points, including cooperation on critical raw materials and energy, and the possibility...
Trump Revokes Obama-Era Greenhouse Gas Finding In "Largest Deregulatory Action" In U.S. History
12.02.2026, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Revokes Obama-Era Greenhouse Gas Finding In "Largest Deregulatory Action" In U.S. History Update (Thursday Afternoon): President Trump told reporters that his administration has rescinded the 2009 Obama-era "Endangerment Finding," a determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare, which he said has been used by the radical...
The Men And Women In The High Castle
12.02.2026, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Men And Women In The High Castle By Michael Every of Rabobank US payrolls stronger, US yields up, stocks flat as anything hit by AI was too, oil sideways, and USD/JPY at 153 vs 159 a few days ago. Fed-speak was all over the place. Schmid said restrictive rates are needed to cool inflation. Miran said there’s still a variety of reasons to cut rates...
"Largest Act Of Deregulation In US History": Trump Admin To Repeal Obama-Era Greenhouse Gas Finding
10.02.2026, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Largest Act Of Deregulation In US History": Trump Admin To Repeal Obama-Era Greenhouse Gas Finding The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is about to pull the rug from underneath climate regulation... The EPA, under Lee Zeldin, plans to revoke the 2009 "endangerment finding", an Obama-era determination that six greenhouse gases “threaten the public...
Beyond Blocs
10.02.2026, 20:18 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Europe and China will not align nor compete, but selectively cooperate...
Germany's "Recovery" Is Just Debt-Fueled Military Orders
10.02.2026, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany's "Recovery" Is Just Debt-Fueled Military Orders Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Friedrich Merz finally has a positive headline. In December, industrial orders surged. But behind the costly statistical recovery lies nothing more than the buildup of a debt-financed defense sector. It took some lead time, but the Chancellor now finally has a success...
Record 9.5 Billion Passenger-Trips Expected During China's Spring Festival
10.02.2026, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Record 9.5 Billion Passenger-Trips Expected During China's Spring Festival A record 9.5 billion passenger trips are expected during this year’s Chinese New Year or Spring Festival travel surge, according to the National Development and Reform Commission. The 40 day period between February 2 and March 13 is expected to see record highs in terms of...
Europe's Chemical Sector 'Will Disappear' Under Weight Of EU Green Deal, CEOs Sound Alarm
09.02.2026, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe's Chemical Sector 'Will Disappear' Under Weight Of EU Green Deal, CEOs Sound Alarm Via Remix News, The visible decline in production in Europe’s chemical sector could soon have far more serious consequences. Production capacity is disappearing, and the further consequences will be alarming, warn leaders of the largest companies in an industry...
Germany Rejects Billion-Euro Data Center: Bureaucracy Wins
09.02.2026, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany Rejects Billion-Euro Data Center: Bureaucracy Wins Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In Groß-Gerau, Hesse, a billion-euro project has been blocked by citizen opposition and the local council’s majority. The town now seems the epitome of Germany’s decline: backward-looking, stubborn, and hopelessly lost in an era that leaves no room for passive...
Is Narrative Warfare Driving Washington's UN Pullback?
07.02.2026, 05:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Narrative Warfare Driving Washington's UN Pullback? Authored by Charles Davis via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary On a gray morning in Geneva, a human-rights advocate walks into the Palais des Nations and scans the room the way you’d scan a street corner for gang members in a hard neighborhood. Not for gangbangers, though; for “civil...
"Electricity Market Is F**ked": Finland Wind Turbine Blades Freeze, Curbing Green Power Output
06.02.2026, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Electricity Market Is F**ked": Finland Wind Turbine Blades Freeze, Curbing Green Power Output Finland has prided itself as a global leader in decarbonization, boasting the second-highest share of renewables in final energy consumption across the EU. But the green utopia narrative has cracked under the strain of a brutal winter, as cold weather has...
Climate Alarmists Are Often Wrong But Never in Doubt
06.02.2026, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Climate Alarmists Are Often Wrong But Never in Doubt Authored by Gary Abernathy via The Empowerment Alliance, One of the most annoying things about climate doomsayers is the certainty with which they make their dire predictions, while simultaneously making excuses for all their past prognostications that failed to materialize. Let’s revisit a few...
America Is Trying to Bully the World Over Climate Change
05.02.2026, 22:19 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The Trump administration has sabotaged a key maritime treaty....
EU Inc: Can Brussels' Latest Corporate Reform Escape Bureaucracy's Grip
05.02.2026, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Inc: Can Brussels' Latest Corporate Reform Escape Bureaucracy's Grip Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The European Commission is responding to mounting criticism of over-bureaucratization with the introduction of a new corporate legal form. “EU Inc” is intended to create a uniform legal structure that applies across the entire European Union economic...
Germany Faces Gas Shortage Crisis: Industry Demands Strategic Reserve
05.02.2026, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany Faces Gas Shortage Crisis: Industry Demands Strategic Reserve Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Following the Federal Network Agency, the umbrella organization of the energy industry is now also calling for the establishment of a national strategic natural gas reserve. The coordinated push by the sector makes it clear that the decline in gas storage...
Why The 'Hype Phase' Of Wind And Solar Is Over
04.02.2026, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why The 'Hype Phase' Of Wind And Solar Is Over Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has taken a sharp turn from its predecessor regarding wind and solar energy, curtailing many of the loans, grants, and permitting that the Biden administration had put in place. Without government subsidies and regulatory support,...
EU vs. Elon Musk: The Battle Over Free Speech Escalates In Paris
04.02.2026, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU vs. Elon Musk: The Battle Over Free Speech Escalates In Paris Submitted by Thomas Kolbe A raid on Elon Musk’s company X in Paris: On Tuesday morning, the French public prosecutor gained access to the company’s offices. The stated purpose of the investigation is the dissemination of child pornography and violations of personal rights through the...
EV Bloodbath: Carmakers Suffer Face-Melting Losses As Buyers Flee, Credits End
04.02.2026, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EV Bloodbath: Carmakers Suffer Face-Melting Losses As Buyers Flee, Credits End The push into electric vehicles was always bullshit, sold by the left as the move that would future-proof America’s and Europe’s legacy automakers and save the planet - and anyone not buying it was subject to a guilt trip from smug, private-jet-owning elitists. Instead...
Minnesota Club Cancels Comedian's Sold Out Show Over Good Joke
04.02.2026, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Minnesota Club Cancels Comedian's Sold Out Show Over Good Joke A Canadian comedian with a solid international fanbase just watched six sold-out shows vanish in Minnesota. Ben Bankas lost his gigs at Laugh Camp Comedy Club in St. Paul after clips of his routine on Renee Good's death blew up online - the routine hit raw nerves in a city still reeling...
Revolving Green Door: Former Biden Officials Landed Jobs With Environmental NGOs After Funneling Money To Them
03.02.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Revolving Green Door: Former Biden Officials Landed Jobs With Environmental NGOs After Funneling Money To Them As the Trump administration's Department of Energy moves to wipe out over $83 billion in "Green New Scam" loans and conditional commitments approved in the final months of the Biden administration, a new analysis reveals that not only did...
California Plans "Mileage Tax" To Bleed Citizens For Even More Cash
03.02.2026, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California Plans "Mileage Tax" To Bleed Citizens For Even More Cash Lawmakers in the California State Assembly have moved to direct the Transportation Commission to prepare a study on the effects of a road charge for delivery to the legislature. A road charge is a program that imposes fees based on the number of miles each citizen drives over a specified...
The Compromise Olympics
02.02.2026, 15:02 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - How Milan Cortina became the Winter Games nobody wanted to fight about....
Largest Power Project In US Approved For West Texas Amid Gas Plant And Data Center Buildout
30.01.2026, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Largest Power Project In US Approved For West Texas Amid Gas Plant And Data Center Buildout Authored by Dylan Baddour via Inside Climate News (emphasis ours), Texas’ environmental regulator this week issued the largest air pollution permit in the country to an enormous planned complex of gas power plants and data centers near the oilfields of the...
"Doomsday Clock" Ticks Closer To Midnight
30.01.2026, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Doomsday Clock" Ticks Closer To Midnight The hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock now stand at 85 seconds to midnight - closer to global catastrophe than ever before. The Doomsday Clock, or the Nuclear War Clock, represents how close we are veering towards global disaster at the hands of humans. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, according to the Bulletin...
Germany's PMI "Recovery" Is Built On Layoffs, Price Inflation, And State Expansion
30.01.2026, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany's PMI "Recovery" Is Built On Layoffs, Price Inflation, And State Expansion Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Economic indicators suggest a stabilization in Germany’s services sector. Yet the apparent improvement in the corresponding index follows massive staff reductions and efficiency measures undertaken by companies responding to a political structural...
What's Worrying Billionaires The Most In 2026?
30.01.2026, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What's Worrying Billionaires The Most In 2026? This infographic, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, highlights the factors most likely to negatively impact the global market environment over the next 12 months, based on responses from billionaires across regions. The data for this visualization comes from the UBS Billionaire Survey 2025. Trade...
Berlin's Real Estate Market: Socialism On The Rise
30.01.2026, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Berlin's Real Estate Market: Socialism On The Rise Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Germany’s debt crisis continues to tighten the political leeway of the Federal Republic. The latest push by Berlin’s SPD for stricter real estate regulation clearly signals the direction ahead: Parties at the brink are choosing state-controlled economics over a market-driven...
Apple Rises After Shocking China Sales Beat Offsets US Revenue Miss
29.01.2026, 23:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Rises After Shocking China Sales Beat Offsets US Revenue Miss Ahead of today's AAPL earnings report, we've had a very mixed picture from Mag 7 earnings so far: first, there was Microsoft, which crashed after its capex forecast unexpectedly jumped, then there was META, which soared after its capex forecast unexpectedly jumped (only in this case...
Trump’s National Defense Strategy Tries to Imagine Climate Change Away
29.01.2026, 17:26 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Sycophancy and ideology have replaced realistic assessments of dangers....
Sanity Returning To Global Oil Forecasts, But Damage Has Been Done; Expert Study Shows
29.01.2026, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sanity Returning To Global Oil Forecasts, But Damage Has Been Done; Expert Study Shows Authored by William Murray via RealClearEnergy, It can be hard to explain to a general audience how important the release of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) is to policymakers, energy companies and investors who make hundreds of billions of dollars in investment decisions...
Why The US Was Right To Leave The WHO
29.01.2026, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why The US Was Right To Leave The WHO Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary The United States has pulled its membership in the World Health Organization (WHO), and many other nations are rethinking their participation. Of course, this could change with some future administration. The institution itself is not...
The End Of "The Great Reset": Six Final Takeaways From Davos As Globalism, Net Zero Lose Edge
28.01.2026, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The End Of "The Great Reset": Six Final Takeaways From Davos As Globalism, Net Zero Lose Edge Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, For years, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has promoted discussions around global economic coordination and governance, an approach often associated with initiatives such as the “Great Reset,” a concept introduced...
Power Diverted From Data Centers To Households Across PJM Network Amid Historic Freeze
27.01.2026, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Power Diverted From Data Centers To Households Across PJM Network Amid Historic Freeze The massive winter storm that disrupted US energy production, sparked the most flight cancellations since Covid, and paralyzed much of the eastern half of the country for days is finally over. BofA chief economist Aditya Bhave has warned that the winter blast could...
How German Media Cast Trump As Evil, And Davos Elites As Moral Saviors
27.01.2026, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How German Media Cast Trump As Evil, And Davos Elites As Moral Saviors Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Donald Trump’s appearance at the World Economic Forum was portrayed by the German media as the very embodiment of evil against the pristine white backdrop of Davos’ snow. To cast politicians like von der Leyen, Merz, and Macron as the “good” counterparts...
EU Launches New Probe Into Musk's AI Chatbot Grok
26.01.2026, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Launches New Probe Into Musk's AI Chatbot Grok The European Commission has opened a new formal investigation into Elon Musk's X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) and expanded a separate probe launched in December 2023. "The new investigation will assess whether the company properly assessed and mitigated risks associated with the deployment of...
The EU's Green Crackdown Threatens European Industry Amid Deindustrialization
26.01.2026, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The EU's Green Crackdown Threatens European Industry Amid Deindustrialization Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Brussels and Berlin are increasing regulatory pressure on European industry. With the tightening of the EU Industrial Emissions Directive, agriculture is now moving even further into the crosshairs of climate regulation. That the EU is increasingly...