Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Irina. Thank you for all your biting and dark humor commentary of the absurdity of Humans. Your essay reminded me of the quote in the Sun also Rises on how bankruptcy occurs. "Two ways, gradually then suddenly".. The same applies to simpleton narratives being fed to the public about the "energy transition" and climate change (which by the way--climate is changing and we will change with it as have all life forms since the beginning of this wonderful planet we call Earth.). I will check out your book! Love all you do. Stay optimistic, even as you keep one eye on reality. May fortune and happiness find you in 2025.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, too, Deborah. Thank you for being here and for the wonderful wishes! All the best for the new year to you and your nearest and dearest.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Irina, I have greatly enjoyed your writing style as someone who deeply appreciates irony and just how hilarious it can be. I agree that the climate cabal is going to have an increasingly difficult time going forward and relish the idea that within a year or two, this entire concept may be behind us after its total collapse.
Blīðe Crīstes-mæsse ond blīðe niw-geār - as we Anglo-Saxons say. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Irina.
Evidence from the UK and USA - at least - shows the younger generation is more conservative (aka Far Right) than thought. Britain’s Far-Right Party has a huge young following… in fact it is gaining a huge every age following, as are other Far Right Parties in what’s left of Europe.
I love Old English spelling, so a special thanks for these wishes, Barry. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and all other Anglo-Saxons out there as well.
As for today's youth, it's just the old pendulum effect that I like to quote so much.
I'm a retired engineer (O&G) that is addicted to reading about energy. When I encountered Substack, it was like finding a gold mine on the ground. Your Substack caught my eye & here we are a few years later. I eagerly await your posts. The technical analysis would be sufficient by itself, but you do it with humor, sarcasm, irony, etc. No one combines the technical with HUMOR like Irina. Have a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. And who knows, maybe 2025 will have less taxpayer funded bobblehead shenanigans. 🤘😎🤘
The Nutbags with trust funds, who wear open toed Birkenstocks without socks 9 months of the year, and then with Hemp milled socks in the winter have decided that small local load hydroelectricity projects on "run of river" projects licensed by the USA Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) are in their gunsights for dam removal. They get a couple of the smaller less consequential dams removed, get federal and state funds to pay for the large part of the decommissioning and then leave after the dam and local generation has been destroyed. The local towns lose the tax base, have to maintain the property and in many cases still conform with FERC on related matters, such as ancient Native American artifacts areas indicating life existed some 10,000 years ago, or some one put a chipped arrowhead from granite on the ground and no one cares to examine it and declares the place ancient and in need of a Shaman to bless it every year and the town can pay for that too.
Then they find the larger systems, and then the largest, all must go! Willy must swim free! The benefactors of these Nihilistic cohorts, reside in the wealthy enclaves around the rivers and lakes, (think northern New England and northern NY State), eating water crackers and soft French cheeses sipping very expensive white wine all summer, thinking out loud and talking about all the good they are doing in support of their twinkle toed commies pit bull dogs, yanking out the dams and hurting the locals. There is nothing like a good virtue signal to make the educated elite with limitless funds "feel good." They "need" to "feel good!" Meanwhile, five of the six New England states up the ante in the game of "most stupid" by doing more and more business with Hydro Quebec, the Provincial Authority in Quebec that owns massive hydroelectric dams and transmits over 37 gigawatts to New England for their "green" consumption and as part of the overall averages for conversion to green power, and meeting unrealistic renewable power mandates. It is fine for Quebec to displace Native North American's and build massive dams and hydro projects, and sell to the states, but it is anathema for the region to have its own hydro power.
These people have never built a thing in their lives, they know only how to tear down, destroy and demoralize the lower and middle classes and transfer massive amounts of wealth to an ever shrinking group of the already generational wealthy.
Well it is going to come to a halt one way or the other. Sooner the better!
"I keep trying to make sense of the whole transition affair." In fact, your work is instrumental in helping people NOT to make sense of the SENSELESS whole transition affair, which would be senseless.
Dear Irina, I wish you a happy Christmas and a merry new year. I do hope your prophecy comes True but am sceptical. Some 15 years ago I bet with my brother that in 10 years time we would have stopped talking about climate change. Boy, was I wrong. I am a sociologist but had completely ignored the length and depth to which this is institutionalised. I agree there is much backlash, but I fear it may take institutionalising the institutionalised before we actually and confidently can deport climate change to phantasy land. Until then I shall remain your loyal fan!!!
You couldn't have known, Roel. It is difficult to anticipate such developments because they are so insane. Insanity is hard to predict. happy Christmas and a Merry New Year to you, too and thank you for being here.
What a super finale to a frankly great year in human history. Please reality don't prove me wrong. Sorry I am an unpaid scrounger Slav, but what do you expect from a two-wheeled batrachian? Have yourself a very Merry Christmas and a supremely peaceful New Year, with love from the BB family in South East Asia.
A truly great year, indeed! You don't have to be a paid subscriber for me to appreciate you and your support. Have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year, Biker, you and your family. Love from Bulgaria!
Irina, my parents were born and raised in Yugoslavia and it was through the 1999 illegal NATO bombing of Serbia that my eyes were first opened to false narratives in our media. From those first baby steps, Covid then drove a giant leap forward in my great awakening. I no longer consume any legacy media. You and many others like yourself are the new media. Common sense and critical thinking are more valuable than ever in making your way through today’s upside down world. Thank you for your role as a truth teller. Sending you all the cold and snow you could wish for this holiday season from the slowly collapsing and once great nation of Canada. Wish us luck.
The NATO war on Serbia was a real eye-opener. Indeed, one of my favourite current event commentators is a compatriot of yours. And once you open your eyes, you can no longer just shut them again. It's good to have your eyes open, no matter what horrors we see. Thank you for the snowy regards, we're in for another snowless southern Christmas here. Fingers crossed for Canada! You can do it.
Another quite enjoyable piece, Irina - thank you and happy Christmas as well!
So with that out of the way, I think the entire nonsensical "CO2 is the problem" narrative just falls short of intelligence (well, always has) but now that the emperor's lack of attire is being recognized by so many I think the smart play for the fear mongers would be to pivot to a different reason - my suggestion being that the switching of the north and south poles, both here on Earth and in the Sun, would be the perfect thing to blame. Greta (et al) can shriek at the sky and beneath her tiny feet as well, blaming these phenomena and I am certain that brain trusts along the lines of Al Gore will come up with novel approaches to preventing these horrible things from happening, at the small cost of every person's individual freedom. Surely there must be a way to stop the madness!
Merry Christmas to you as well, Irina! And thank YOU for all that you have shared about all the energy and political travails in Europe with us here in the States. Thanks to you and Eugyppius, I find myself not only knowing more than ever about the state of The Continent, but caring about it in the same amount, as I count at least two friends amongst its inhabitants!
And as an avid Stephen King fan, my interest is piqued about the possible transition angle in "The Tommyknockers". I believe a copy is buried on one of our bookshelves, unread since it was new, but I think I'll dig it out for a re-read over a few long Winter nights.
And I'm sure you might have caught onto Mr. King's utter contempt for one Donald Trump through his post-2016 offerings. I wonder how the King of Horror will weave him into whatever he creates from 2024-2028?
Can't WAIT to see what you have in store for us in 2025 as well, Irina. May you and yours have the Happiest of New Years!
You flatter me by putting me next to eugyppius, thank you! I have also developed a whole new level of caring about the state of the US of A because of the many friends I have found there. That's one great silver lining of the whole transition disaster.
As for King, the last of his books I read was, I think, The Outsider, which was a significant disappointment. I guess his newfound passion for politics has sapped his creative powers, alas. The Tommyknockers are worth the re-read, however, anti-nuclearism and all. He'llprobably write a sequel to The Dead Zone, maybe, seeing as he was perfectly fine with people comparing Trump to his Greg Stillson back in 2016.
Credit where it is due, Irina! You're far too humble. and your growing body of work speaks for itself.
And the glimpses you give us into the EU-World can only be found here, as neither your or our left-wing media dares report the truths that you show us.
I'm up-to-date n all of King's latest , and while I still enjoy his work, gone are the riveting classics like "It", "The Stand", and "Pet Sematary".
I don't know if it's his age, that horrific accident he went through, or an advanced case of TDS, but he has certainly "mellowed" and become way too political.
I am glad to see that he hasn't "thrown himself into a wood chipper" as he promised to do if Trump won, as I wouldn't wish that on anybody. (Although, it would be a fitting end for "The King of Horror", fictionally, of course).
The last of his post-accident works I thoroughly enjoyed was Black House but I am quite partial to The Talisman and Jack Sawyer. "Pet Sematary" is and will remain the scariest book I have ever read. It deals with the most horrible choice a parent can make and I equally love and hate that. I'd better stop before this turns into an Ode to the King with Some Criticism.
I enjoy most of his works, and was quite taken by the "Gunslinger" series with the exception of the ending, which I felt was hurried.
And yes, "Pet Sematary" is top of the heap for being downright scary, (The Wendigo in the forest part still gives me chills), and "It" was also frightening but in a more gory way.
And if you haven't read 2019's "The Institute" yet, it's quite gripping mainly in that it deals with children.
Perhaps he'll write about Holly Gibney investigating Donald Trump's (as of yet fictional) assassin in a 2026 book?
Thanks, I'll try, although one reason I gave up on him was the excessive focus on children. I mean, we've had more than enough of that through the years, maybe find another demographic to torture? Perhaps I am asking too much of him, though. Now a new book about Holly Gibney would be a swell idea.
Oh, he seems like an equal-opportunity torturer to me, especially when he kills off characters that I like!
And yes, I've become quite taken with Ms. Gibney, whose appeal is partly due to the fact that she's as odd and flawed as the rest of us, but still manages to accomplish great things!
Yes, I know Amazon are picky with their reviewers, which is one of the many reasons I feel such great affection for them. :) It's true Kobo doesn't get as much traffic but I would be grateful for any review anywhere. I can then parade it on social media.
A few small words of encouragement can make a huge difference in how an author, or at least this author, feels about their work. I'm proofing Fang in Fang 2 right now and waiting for the book cover.
Merry Christmas Irina, and the heartfelt "thank you", T
Merry Christmas, T!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Irina. Thank you for all your biting and dark humor commentary of the absurdity of Humans. Your essay reminded me of the quote in the Sun also Rises on how bankruptcy occurs. "Two ways, gradually then suddenly".. The same applies to simpleton narratives being fed to the public about the "energy transition" and climate change (which by the way--climate is changing and we will change with it as have all life forms since the beginning of this wonderful planet we call Earth.). I will check out your book! Love all you do. Stay optimistic, even as you keep one eye on reality. May fortune and happiness find you in 2025.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, too, Deborah. Thank you for being here and for the wonderful wishes! All the best for the new year to you and your nearest and dearest.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Irina, I have greatly enjoyed your writing style as someone who deeply appreciates irony and just how hilarious it can be. I agree that the climate cabal is going to have an increasingly difficult time going forward and relish the idea that within a year or two, this entire concept may be behind us after its total collapse.
Imagine that! It would be wonderful to witness that collapse.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Andy!
Blīðe Crīstes-mæsse ond blīðe niw-geār - as we Anglo-Saxons say. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Irina.
Evidence from the UK and USA - at least - shows the younger generation is more conservative (aka Far Right) than thought. Britain’s Far-Right Party has a huge young following… in fact it is gaining a huge every age following, as are other Far Right Parties in what’s left of Europe.
I love Old English spelling, so a special thanks for these wishes, Barry. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and all other Anglo-Saxons out there as well.
As for today's youth, it's just the old pendulum effect that I like to quote so much.
I'm a retired engineer (O&G) that is addicted to reading about energy. When I encountered Substack, it was like finding a gold mine on the ground. Your Substack caught my eye & here we are a few years later. I eagerly await your posts. The technical analysis would be sufficient by itself, but you do it with humor, sarcasm, irony, etc. No one combines the technical with HUMOR like Irina. Have a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. And who knows, maybe 2025 will have less taxpayer funded bobblehead shenanigans. 🤘😎🤘
You're very kind, Karloff, thank you! A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you!🤘😎🤘
The Nutbags with trust funds, who wear open toed Birkenstocks without socks 9 months of the year, and then with Hemp milled socks in the winter have decided that small local load hydroelectricity projects on "run of river" projects licensed by the USA Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) are in their gunsights for dam removal. They get a couple of the smaller less consequential dams removed, get federal and state funds to pay for the large part of the decommissioning and then leave after the dam and local generation has been destroyed. The local towns lose the tax base, have to maintain the property and in many cases still conform with FERC on related matters, such as ancient Native American artifacts areas indicating life existed some 10,000 years ago, or some one put a chipped arrowhead from granite on the ground and no one cares to examine it and declares the place ancient and in need of a Shaman to bless it every year and the town can pay for that too.
Then they find the larger systems, and then the largest, all must go! Willy must swim free! The benefactors of these Nihilistic cohorts, reside in the wealthy enclaves around the rivers and lakes, (think northern New England and northern NY State), eating water crackers and soft French cheeses sipping very expensive white wine all summer, thinking out loud and talking about all the good they are doing in support of their twinkle toed commies pit bull dogs, yanking out the dams and hurting the locals. There is nothing like a good virtue signal to make the educated elite with limitless funds "feel good." They "need" to "feel good!" Meanwhile, five of the six New England states up the ante in the game of "most stupid" by doing more and more business with Hydro Quebec, the Provincial Authority in Quebec that owns massive hydroelectric dams and transmits over 37 gigawatts to New England for their "green" consumption and as part of the overall averages for conversion to green power, and meeting unrealistic renewable power mandates. It is fine for Quebec to displace Native North American's and build massive dams and hydro projects, and sell to the states, but it is anathema for the region to have its own hydro power.
These people have never built a thing in their lives, they know only how to tear down, destroy and demoralize the lower and middle classes and transfer massive amounts of wealth to an ever shrinking group of the already generational wealthy.
Well it is going to come to a halt one way or the other. Sooner the better!
Two generations of vulture capitalism have taught the wealthy elites that destruction is the way to make money...
"I keep trying to make sense of the whole transition affair." In fact, your work is instrumental in helping people NOT to make sense of the SENSELESS whole transition affair, which would be senseless.
Well, as we've seen from the transition the outcomes an action are not always of the intended variety. :D
Dear Irina, I wish you a happy Christmas and a merry new year. I do hope your prophecy comes True but am sceptical. Some 15 years ago I bet with my brother that in 10 years time we would have stopped talking about climate change. Boy, was I wrong. I am a sociologist but had completely ignored the length and depth to which this is institutionalised. I agree there is much backlash, but I fear it may take institutionalising the institutionalised before we actually and confidently can deport climate change to phantasy land. Until then I shall remain your loyal fan!!!
Fifteen years ago you had no way of knowing that there is more than $4B per year in propaganda money pushing anti-industrialism.
Good point.
You couldn't have known, Roel. It is difficult to anticipate such developments because they are so insane. Insanity is hard to predict. happy Christmas and a Merry New Year to you, too and thank you for being here.
What a super finale to a frankly great year in human history. Please reality don't prove me wrong. Sorry I am an unpaid scrounger Slav, but what do you expect from a two-wheeled batrachian? Have yourself a very Merry Christmas and a supremely peaceful New Year, with love from the BB family in South East Asia.
A truly great year, indeed! You don't have to be a paid subscriber for me to appreciate you and your support. Have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year, Biker, you and your family. Love from Bulgaria!
Irina, my parents were born and raised in Yugoslavia and it was through the 1999 illegal NATO bombing of Serbia that my eyes were first opened to false narratives in our media. From those first baby steps, Covid then drove a giant leap forward in my great awakening. I no longer consume any legacy media. You and many others like yourself are the new media. Common sense and critical thinking are more valuable than ever in making your way through today’s upside down world. Thank you for your role as a truth teller. Sending you all the cold and snow you could wish for this holiday season from the slowly collapsing and once great nation of Canada. Wish us luck.
The NATO war on Serbia was a real eye-opener. Indeed, one of my favourite current event commentators is a compatriot of yours. And once you open your eyes, you can no longer just shut them again. It's good to have your eyes open, no matter what horrors we see. Thank you for the snowy regards, we're in for another snowless southern Christmas here. Fingers crossed for Canada! You can do it.
Another quite enjoyable piece, Irina - thank you and happy Christmas as well!
So with that out of the way, I think the entire nonsensical "CO2 is the problem" narrative just falls short of intelligence (well, always has) but now that the emperor's lack of attire is being recognized by so many I think the smart play for the fear mongers would be to pivot to a different reason - my suggestion being that the switching of the north and south poles, both here on Earth and in the Sun, would be the perfect thing to blame. Greta (et al) can shriek at the sky and beneath her tiny feet as well, blaming these phenomena and I am certain that brain trusts along the lines of Al Gore will come up with novel approaches to preventing these horrible things from happening, at the small cost of every person's individual freedom. Surely there must be a way to stop the madness!
Why did a scientific theory adopt as it's spokesperson a Swedish, poorly educated autistic teenager?
To ask is to answer, as they say.
Yes, but could they blame our lavish lifestyles for the pole switch? This is the question. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Many thanks for all your good work. Have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, too!
Весела Коледа и Честита Нова Година и на теб!
Весела Кoледа! This is really sweet, thank you!
Merry Christmas to you as well, Irina! And thank YOU for all that you have shared about all the energy and political travails in Europe with us here in the States. Thanks to you and Eugyppius, I find myself not only knowing more than ever about the state of The Continent, but caring about it in the same amount, as I count at least two friends amongst its inhabitants!
And as an avid Stephen King fan, my interest is piqued about the possible transition angle in "The Tommyknockers". I believe a copy is buried on one of our bookshelves, unread since it was new, but I think I'll dig it out for a re-read over a few long Winter nights.
And I'm sure you might have caught onto Mr. King's utter contempt for one Donald Trump through his post-2016 offerings. I wonder how the King of Horror will weave him into whatever he creates from 2024-2028?
Can't WAIT to see what you have in store for us in 2025 as well, Irina. May you and yours have the Happiest of New Years!
You flatter me by putting me next to eugyppius, thank you! I have also developed a whole new level of caring about the state of the US of A because of the many friends I have found there. That's one great silver lining of the whole transition disaster.
As for King, the last of his books I read was, I think, The Outsider, which was a significant disappointment. I guess his newfound passion for politics has sapped his creative powers, alas. The Tommyknockers are worth the re-read, however, anti-nuclearism and all. He'llprobably write a sequel to The Dead Zone, maybe, seeing as he was perfectly fine with people comparing Trump to his Greg Stillson back in 2016.
Credit where it is due, Irina! You're far too humble. and your growing body of work speaks for itself.
And the glimpses you give us into the EU-World can only be found here, as neither your or our left-wing media dares report the truths that you show us.
I'm up-to-date n all of King's latest , and while I still enjoy his work, gone are the riveting classics like "It", "The Stand", and "Pet Sematary".
I don't know if it's his age, that horrific accident he went through, or an advanced case of TDS, but he has certainly "mellowed" and become way too political.
I am glad to see that he hasn't "thrown himself into a wood chipper" as he promised to do if Trump won, as I wouldn't wish that on anybody. (Although, it would be a fitting end for "The King of Horror", fictionally, of course).
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
The last of his post-accident works I thoroughly enjoyed was Black House but I am quite partial to The Talisman and Jack Sawyer. "Pet Sematary" is and will remain the scariest book I have ever read. It deals with the most horrible choice a parent can make and I equally love and hate that. I'd better stop before this turns into an Ode to the King with Some Criticism.
Merry Christmas!
I enjoy most of his works, and was quite taken by the "Gunslinger" series with the exception of the ending, which I felt was hurried.
And yes, "Pet Sematary" is top of the heap for being downright scary, (The Wendigo in the forest part still gives me chills), and "It" was also frightening but in a more gory way.
And if you haven't read 2019's "The Institute" yet, it's quite gripping mainly in that it deals with children.
Perhaps he'll write about Holly Gibney investigating Donald Trump's (as of yet fictional) assassin in a 2026 book?
Merry Christmas to you and yours as well!
Thanks, I'll try, although one reason I gave up on him was the excessive focus on children. I mean, we've had more than enough of that through the years, maybe find another demographic to torture? Perhaps I am asking too much of him, though. Now a new book about Holly Gibney would be a swell idea.
Oh, he seems like an equal-opportunity torturer to me, especially when he kills off characters that I like!
And yes, I've become quite taken with Ms. Gibney, whose appeal is partly due to the fact that she's as odd and flawed as the rest of us, but still manages to accomplish great things!
Good to see you promoting your book, Irina!
Thank you very much for sharing your insights (and rants), humour, and observations.
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas!
I have you to thank for this, Rose_Anne, and deeply thankful I am. A very Merry Christmas to you, and a Happy New Year!
Unfortunately, Irina, since I didn't purchase the book through Amazon, they won't let me post a review. Kobo doesn't get nearly as many visitors.
A few small words of encouragement? You're more than welcome, and I am loving the book (hoping it's worth your while to publish the next one as well).
Here's hoping for energy sanity in the new year!
Yes, I know Amazon are picky with their reviewers, which is one of the many reasons I feel such great affection for them. :) It's true Kobo doesn't get as much traffic but I would be grateful for any review anywhere. I can then parade it on social media.
A few small words of encouragement can make a huge difference in how an author, or at least this author, feels about their work. I'm proofing Fang in Fang 2 right now and waiting for the book cover.
Here's to hope for sanity!
You are formidable, funny and factual....a savageress....GREAT WORK, as always. I hope you get the audience you deserve.
Thank you so much! I have a much better audience than I think I deserve but you won't hear me complaining about it. Thanks for being here!