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Ronald Stein is an engineer, energy consultant, speaker, author of books and articles on energy, environmental policy, and human rights, and founder of California-based PTS Advance. He is co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations, policy adviser on energy literacy for The Heartland Institute, and The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and national TV commentator on Energy & Infrastructure with Rick Amato.

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Just Turn Them On, Dummy

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**A driving light rant** Dusk on a Calgary arterial. That grey half-hour where the sky still has some light in it but the road doesn't....

The Wound That Won’t Close

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Four years on, the courts have ruled, the money is gone, and not one person has answered for any of it. By Bruce Scholl — Unscrew...

From Pots and Pans to the Pile-On,

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The History and Benefits of Ridicule, Shame, and the Public-Square Trial We never stopped shaming people. We just changed venues. Walk through any medieval market town...

The Balls to Say It

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Drew Barrymore praised Sydney Sweeney's bravery with the most masculine compliment she could find. Nobody blinked. That's the whole story. By Unscrew the News ...

The Decisive Man: Reclaiming the Instinct to Act

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There is a moment in every crisis where someone has to step forward. Not because they have all the answers, but because waiting is...

THE COURAGE TO SPEAK

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The White Rose, the Long Story of Alberta, and the People Who Refuse to Be Quiet By Bruce Scholl Unscrew the News History has a way of...

Bread & Circuses: The Oldest Trick in the Book

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The phrase "bread and circuses" comes from the Roman poet and satirist Juvenal, writing around 100 AD in his Satires. He observed that the...

The Individual vs. the Tribe

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How tribal multiculturalism fails freedom and destroys our countries. https://fast.visegrad24.com/articles/the-individual-vs-the-tribe

The Great Canadian Split: Can the Federation Hold?

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After generations of inter-regional tensions, Western Canadian provinces are considering independence. https://fast.visegrad24.com/articles/the-great-canadian-split-can-the-federation-hold

Now Is Alberta’s Time

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A reflection on inheritance, freedom, and why Alberta’s referendum effort matters now.  Alberta’s push toward a referendum is not only a political tactic—it is a...

BIG Exclusives

From the Middle East to Venezuela – the 2025-26 rewiring of global petroleum markets

(Editor’s note: this is the second article in a two-part series, following The oil system that worked – until February 2022 (Part 1 of...

AI hysteria: is the latest ‘crisis’ artificial?

Artificial Intelligence is being promoted as the latest crisis in a world seemingly hungry for a continuous diet of crises (to which I alluded...