These three 18-year-olds, all of them set to finish high school next year in the northern town of Koethen, are coming of age just as Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, is aiming to rebuild and revitalize its military after generations of lingering Nazi-era stigma. One of the students, Steven Foerster, said he was drawn to high-tech opportunities in the Bundeswehr, Germany’s federal defense forces. His classmate Sarah Naumann thought joining up might be a good way for her to pursue medical studies. Jakob Fischer, another student, said he could see himself serving in a combat unit.

“The negative image isn’t really there anymore,” said Foerster. Naumann concurred: “The German army has become attractive again.” To a German public deeply shocked by events in Ukraine, the Bundeswehr — which has concerned itself mainly with foreign peacekeeping and natural disasters at home — is now seen as an indispensable guarantor of security, even though Western troops are not directly taking part in the Ukraine fighting.

Recruiters are seeking to capitalize on that more dynamic image. A new Bundeswehr video titled “We Protect Germany” features action-heavy scenes of fast-moving tanks and helicopter-borne troops swooping in to land.“Now people are asking us: What exactly is the Bundeswehr doing? What is driving you? How are you going to spend the 100 billion?” said army Captain Frank Sperling, a youth liaison officer. “All of a sudden, there is interest again in what we do.” Captain Norman Sehmisch, another youth liaison officer, said there had been a jump in requests for military personnel to give public talks and visit schools.

“Seventy-five percent of our lectures are now on Ukraine, on national defense,” he said. “Not about our missions abroad, in Mali, Kosovo, or when we were in Afghanistan.” “The war in Ukraine makes people realize how important it is to have an army to protect them.”

Corbyn is the founder of “Weather Action” and he began to explain that they predicted that there would be extreme heat in Eastern Europe in Russia this summer before it even happened, and that these weather patterns are caused by “a certain circulation pattern”, and not CO2, but a combination of solar activity and the phases of the moon.

The reporter in Moscow then interrupts him with elevated voice and says: Excuse me, just a minute! You say this isn’t caused by man, how come they are reporting this heat wave is recognized as the worst in a thousand years in recorded history in Russia?! And for sure, man has something to do with it, hasn’t he? Corbyn replies calmly, “No.”

Man has nothing to do with it. The only connection is that man is here at the same time as the sun and the moon are doing things. He then goes on to explain that a very similar situation happened about 132 years ago. He states that those who claim otherwise are simply trying to make money off of the Climate Change narrative.

Get through what? A stretch of hot days in the summer is nothing new, despite Newsom's false claims of 'unprecedented' temperatures. The last comparable heat wave occurred in 1988. That's not exactly ancient history. No, the real reason that California – a state that ranks as the world's fifth largest economy – cannot power its citizens' homes is that for years Newsom and far-left Democrats have waged war on energy in the name of fighting climate change.

For them, the only thing that matters is pushing forward, with all the zeal of the religious fanatic, a crazed and irrational anti-energy, anti-human agenda. Reliable sources of electricity, like gas-burning power stations and nuclear power, have been undermined, while renewable alternatives like wind and solar have been encouraged through regulation and subsidy.

The latest centerpiece is the program to force the electrification of our economy with bans on gas cookers in new homes, and, most famously, banning gas cars by 2035. Electric vehicles for all! But in potentially the cruelest and most inept recent edict, Californians with electric vehicles were told not to charge their cars.

To complete the picture of chaos and confusion, Cal Fire Battalion Chief Isaac Sanchez pleaded with people to ignore that command, with parts of the state under wildfire evacuation warnings. 'We recommend cars are fully charged and ready to go. If that's your means of evacuation and if you don't do it, you are unable to evacuate, life safety is a priority. At least it is to us,' Sanchez told Newsweek. 'Our priority is always to err on the side of life safety.'

“We need to be taking advantage of our abundant energy resources and ensuring American energy freedom, NOT pushing radical pipe dreams while Americans suffer,” the Heritage Foundation tweeted in response to Yellen’s remarks.

Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm recently praised the Inflation Reduction Act for helping “create huge incentives for wind and solar and geothermal” energy. Granholm also claimed the Biden administration has been demanding the oil industry to increase production, but oil drillers say the Democrats’ policies are slowing their progress.

“Biden’s attack on private financing is only one angle of assault. In August, Biden changed global bank financing rules that make it more difficult for drillers to find investors,” Breitbart News’s Wendell Husebø reported. “The policy is intended to accelerate renewable energy investment rather than fossil fuel investment, thereby greatly defunding oil production.”

In particular, these accounts pushed the hashtags #IStandWithUkraine, #IStandWithZelenskyy, and #ISupportUkraine, and myths like the ‘Ghost of Kiev’, a fictional Ukrainian fighter pilot who is farcically alleged to have taken down 40 Russian jets within hours of the military operation commencing. Significant spikes in activity were recorded at key points in the initial stages of the fighting, such as Russia’s capture of Kherson on March 2, and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant on March 4.

The accounts identified were overwhelmingly English language, leading the researchers to conclude these fake users sought to “drive more disruption in English-speaking countries” and “influence a variety of user groups.” Despite the significant focus on English, Ukrainian bots also employed the Russian language to “cause more disruption” in the country. Numerous commentators have drawn attention to the weaponization of Twitter, Facebook, et al in support of the Western proxy war in Ukraine.

Historic Environment Scotland (HES), which manages the castle, will arrange for it to be taken to Westminster Abbey. In 1996, to mark the 700th anniversary of the stone’s original removal from Scotland, it was returned – with the consent of the Queen – and placed in Edinburgh Castle on St Andrew’s Day.

Giving a statement to the House of Commons at the time, former Prime Minister John Major said: ‘With permission I should like to make a statement about the Stone of Destiny. ‘I now wish to inform the House, that on advice of Her Majesty’s ministers, the Queen has agreed that the stone should be returned to Scotland. ‘I believe that on this the 700th anniversary of its removal from Scotland it is appropriate to return it to its historic homeland.’

Pessimism about Britain’s prospects is spread across the US political spectrum. Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster who has also worked as an analyst of British politics, said: “The UK is at a truly critical juncture. Politically, economically, even ethically, the institutions and the people who lead them are losing the faith and trust of the people they lead.

“The one steady, predictable force was the Queen, but now she’s gone. Candidly, I fear for Britain’s future,” Luntz said. “I’ve watched what happens in America when there’s no one to unify the country. No one stepped forward, and we can all see the consequences. The Queen was a great unifier. Somebody desperately needs to take her place.”

“The UK doesn’t have the leverage that the European Union has in a trade negotiation,” Serwer said. “There’s enormous attachment in the United States to the United Kingdom, but looked at with the cold eye of realism, it’s not the partner it once might have been.”

A persistent theme in the later years of Elizabeth’s reign was her reported realization that the monarchy needed to modernize. But she didn’t go about it by lecturing her subjects about how the royal family was going woke and that they should too – in contrast to the preachy approach of her son, now King Charles III, particularly on issues such as climate change. Instead, Elizabeth led purely by example.

When Markle joined the family, only to demand to move to California along with her husband Prince Harry and abandon their royal duties, there was heavy media pressure at the time on the Queen to strip them of their royal titles. But there was no knee-jerk reaction on the Queen’s part – the kind that today’s social media hordes demand. Instead, Elizabeth handled the situation like the highly skilled diplomat that she was. She allowed Harry and Meghan to keep their titles and gave them a path out on the condition that they forgo their royal entitlements and earn their own living.

She reportedly considered that such a precedent may someday help forge a path for other minor royals who wanted to pursue careers. She masterfully defused the drama by looking beyond the emotionally-charged moment and pressure to longer term interests – a skill that so many Western leaders now sorely lack.

The world desperately needs more Queen Elizabeths and fewer Meghan Markles and Liz Trusses. Her Majesty’s death, and a look back on her life and reign, only serves to underscore how much Western leadership is now sorely lacking.

"But through the inventions of science I can do what was not possible for any of them. I can make my solemn act of dedication with a whole Empire listening. I should like to make that dedication now. It is very simple."

It was that service to country that motivated her, and became the trademark of other coming-of-age leaders of the Greatest Generation. She was never distracted from the mission as the British empire dwindled through emancipation, endured the pain of additional wars, declared the end of African apartheid, and disgorged the discomfort of family scandals and Buckingham Palace's trademark tabloid gossip.

Her recipe for staying true to service was simple: follow the royal edict to "never complain, never explain." At times, like with Princess Diana's tragic death, Elizabeth's steely resolve made her feel distant, stoic or detached. At other times, it provided remarkable strength to countrymen and women, even into her 90s when she rallied the nation through a lethal pandemic that nearly felled the country's prime minister Boris Johnson.

And when she passed Thursday at the age of 96, Queen Elizabeth II closed the book on the Greatest Generation's ruling class with the same lack of drama that defined her reign. She carried her duties out to her final 48 hours, then passed after a brief illness surrounded by family.

Last year, he demanded a “war-like footing,” in calling for the sabotage of reliable energy resources to tackle the so-called climate crisis. Charles’s initiatives, and his promotion of the destructive Paris Climate Accords and the UN's Climate Change Conference objectives, has helped position the UK on the precipice of energy disaster.

The newly minted king is also an avowed proponent of depopulation, having on multiple occasions called for population control of broader civilization. At the onset of COVID Mania, Charles sat down with World Economic Forum leader Klaus Schwab, in which the pair excitedly championed a “Great Reset” to “solve the climate crisis and restore the natural world.” In a podcast with Schwab, Charles advocated “carbon pricing” of goods and a “net zero” agenda, which, of course, would result in mass human suffering.

Finally, I can get a sense of what it feels like to be a Patriot in the time of the American Revolution... He has embraced the evil ideologies of our times. He represents a series of radical movements that seek to impose ruin upon the masses, to the benefit of the ruling class.... He is the WEF king.