Catherine McBride talks about her paper “Premeditated Industrial Destruction,” arguing UK net-zero policies have driven deindustrialization without lowering global emissions by shifting production and emissions to countries like China. They discuss UK energy reliance on fossil fuels (about 75–80%), gas backup for wind, bans and legal obstacles to new North Sea and shale projects while importing gas, and high industrial electricity costs from wind-related grid and balancing costs plus multiple carbon taxes. McBride criticizes EV mandates and fines, insufficient charging and grid capacity, and policies pushing carmakers and firms like BP away. She says EU net-zero rules hurt farming and industry, notes coal’s role and storage advantages, questions activist funding (including alleged Russian support), and contrasts Norway’s hydro and state oil strategy with UK decisions.

00:00 Meet Catherine McBride

00:11 How Net Zero Killed Industry

02:37 Fossil Fuels Reality Check

04:19 Importing Gas While Banning Drilling

07:05 Norway Hydro And LNG

09:33 Hybrids Versus Pure EVs

11:54 EV Mandates And Car Industry Exit

15:38 China EVs And Charging Limits

19:05 Grid Can’t Handle Electrification

35:33 BP Profits Politics And US Option

37:37 Free Speech Shift And Chris Wright Wish

38:54 UK Cabinet Energy Illiteracy

41:29 Coal Mines Versus Activists

43:44 Europe’s Coal Reality Check

47:50 Batteries and Load Shedding

51:45 Why Solar Fails in Britain

53:48 Subsidies Warp Farming

57:16 Tariffs and Media Blind Spots

01:03:29 NGO Funding and Anti-Fracking

01:06:29 Russia Gas Markets and Nord Stream

01:08:52 Norway’s Oil Wealth Playbook

01:10:27 UK Bets on Carbon Capture

01:11:37 Trees Beat Tech Wrap-Up

https://x.com/CeeMacBee

https://catherinemcbride.substack.com/

Premeditated Industrial Destruction?: https://gbbc.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Premeditated-Industrial-Destruction-Final-6th-April-2026-with-added-security-issue-v2.pdf

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Tom interviews investigative journalist Sonia Elijah about her book 3/11 Viral Takeover, a five-year, evidence-based chronicle of the COVID era with 941 citations drawn from FOIA releases, emails, and leaked documents. Elijah argues COVID policy reflected a coordinated, censorship-driven response, tracing a timeline of pre-2020 pandemic exercises, media/government coordination, and conflicts of interest. She discusses the WHO’s March 11, 2020 pandemic declaration, alleged suppression of lab-origin discussion, flawed modeling used to justify lockdowns, and problems with PCR testing. The conversation covers propaganda and censorship networks (including the Trusted News Initiative), suppression of early treatments, harms from ventilators and drugs, and allegations of misclassified vaccine trial and safety data, including pregnancy and myocarditis concerns, urging accountability and preparedness against repetition.

00:00 Meet Sonia Elijah

00:18 Book Thesis and Censorship

01:17 Research Depth and Purpose

02:49 Will It Happen Again

04:40 Why 3 11 Matters

06:01 Pandemic Drills and mRNA Push

10:53 Bat Database Goes Dark

12:18 FOIA Emails and Lab Leak

15:04 Cracks and Conflicts

18:10 Lockdowns Driven by Models

19:19 PCR Testing Anomalies

25:31 Harms and Care Homes

26:37 Testing Kit Profiteering

29:40 Fear Messaging and Propaganda

32:10 Dancing Nurses and Empty Wards

33:39 Trusted News Initiative

37:17 Natural Immunity Censored

38:17 Lancet Study Fallout

40:13 Ivermectin Smear Campaign

41:57 Silencing Doctors Online

43:30 Hospital Protocol Controversies

45:09 Redefining Vaccinated Data

46:38 Retracted Myocarditis Research

48:46 Missing Safety Reports

53:31 Pfizer Papers Deep Dive

58:13 Vaccine Injured Silenced

59:52 Pregnancy Harms Revealed

01:04:40 Justice and Accountability

01:07:32 Closing Thoughts on the Book

https://x.com/sonia_elijah

https://linktr.ee/SoniaElijah

Book Review by Robert Malone— 3/11: Viral Takeover: https://www.malone.news/p/book-review-311-viral-takeover

Order it at Amazon here: https://www.malone.news/p/book-review-311-viral-takeover

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Thomas Kurz discusses his upcoming book, Why There Is No Climate Crisis (Kindle in May, print in June), and argues modest warming is largely natural, claiming the IPCC obscures evidence of past climate variability. He explains paleoclimate proxies (oxygen isotopes, carbon-14, beryllium-10) and links climate shifts to Milankovitch cycles, solar cycles, galactic cosmic rays influencing clouds, and ocean oscillations (AMO/PDO). Using temperature reconstructions, glacier, treeline, sea-level, historical freeze, agriculture, insect, and civilization records, he says warm periods brought prosperity while cold periods drove drought, famine, disease, and upheaval. He concludes about half of post-1850 warming is natural, warming is generally beneficial, and future cooling is likely.

00:00 Guest And Book Intro

00:24 Why He Dug In

01:46 Focus On Climate Cycles

03:44 Paleoclimate Proxies

04:57 Isotopes And Temperature

06:48 Cosmic Rays And Solar

07:56 Milky Way Climate Cycle

12:17 Milankovitch Ice Ages

14:28 CO2 Follows Temperature

17:10 Holocene Cooling Trend

19:29 Schwabe Solar Cycles

21:42 Millennial Solar Cycles

23:14 Temperature Reconstructions

25:04 Glaciers Treelines Seas

28:44 Historical Freeze Evidence

32:27 Farming And Wildlife Clues

37:06 Warm Vs Cold Impacts

41:28 Storm Evidence In Proxies

44:44 Civilizations And Climate

45:48 Holocene Optimum Prosperity

47:42 2200 BC Collapse Event

48:18 Minoan Warm Period Boom

50:47 Greek Dark Ages Breakdown

52:53 Roman Warm Period Growth

54:23 Late Antique Cooling Plagues

56:50 Medieval Warm Period Golden Age

59:11 Little Ice Age Hardship

01:06:46 Witch Hunts Climate Blame

01:09:16 Modern Warming Attribution Debate

01:12:17 Ocean Oscillations AMO PDO

01:15:44 No Climate Crisis Wrap Up

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