Norwegians are calling out Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen on her nonsense.

It is an interesting feature of contemporary European politics that some pockets of resistance to suicidal Brussels policies have started to emerge.

Political fights that were only waged by the ‘far-right’ are now espoused by establishment forces across the political spectrum.

One example would be leftist Denmark and establishment right-wing Italy uniting against immigration policy.

Another is the push by the Norwegians against the energy policies, and Brussels hypocrisy in its attack on Arctic oil.

JUST IN: Norway declares it will continue drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic regardless of the EU’s support for a moratorium.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) August 25, 2026

The immediate objection must be made that Norway is NOT part of the EU – but it’s under the same legislative and regulatory pressures.

To begin with, a quick look at the top 10 buyers of Norwegian oil and gas: United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, France, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Italy.

9 EU countries and the United Kingdom.

We can see how Norwegian oil and gas play an important role in the energy security of the very European Union that fustigates its industry.

Not only that, but as a Norwegian minister noted today, several EU countries are actively searching for oil in the Arctic.

Norway is officially breaking with Brussels’ energy policies.

Norwegian Energy Minister Terje Aasland has declared that Oslo will pursue Barents Sea oil & gas exploration—regardless of any EU Arctic moratoriums.

Here is why the EU–Norway energy alliance is fracturing pic.twitter.com/tye1SlK6sS

— Francesco Sassi (@Frank_Stones) August 25, 2026

Politico reported:

“The EU executive has pushed for a global ban on new drilling in the Arctic region since 2021 despite criticism from Arctic exporters — particularly Norway, which has become the EU’s largest supplier of gas and its second-biggest supplier of oil as the bloc has cut down its trade with Russia.”

Energy minister, Terje Aasland, called out the open contradiction:

“While the EU talks about banning drilling, ‘we see different actions from the different countries that we want to talk with’, he said. He pointed to Polish state energy company Orlen’s recent investment in offshore oil fields in the sea around Norway, as well as Germany state energy company Uniper’s 15-year agreement with Norwegian oil major Equinor to buy gas.

‘When we’re talking to Germany, they want that gas. And when you’re talking to Poland, they want that gas’, Aasland added at a panel earlier in the day.”

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Norway Will Drill for Oil and Gas in the Barents Sea Despite European Union’s Objections

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The Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game was the most watched WNBA game since the league’s opening weekend in 1997, averaging 3.31 million viewers on NBC and Peacock on Sunday.

At one point in the game the audience size surged to 3.8 million viewers, another record for a regular season contest.

The game included the league’s second-most popular player Sophie Cunningham, a tough Midwestern woman who recently spoke out against biological men in women’s sports.

And, the game was not without its drama when former NBA great Enes Kantor Freedom was escorted from the building after Sky player Natasha Cloud started screaming at him for wearing a T-shirt with the definition of woman on it.

Former NBA star and fearless free speech warrior @EnesFreedom was dragged out of Wintrust Arena Sunday night during the Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game after a heated courtside confrontation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. pic.twitter.com/FHKTmXdRNf

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) August 24, 2026

Several WNBA coaches and players have spoken out to allow biological men in the game but for some reason player Natasha Cloud was upset with Cantor’s decision to join the league.

Sometimes, the WNBA is like strange reality show.

Here is Clark fan Ben Daniel discussing the massive number of viewers Caitlin and Sophie are bringing in to the league.

Grok had this to say about the latest Fever’s record.

**  It nearly doubled the NBA’s overall national-telecast average of 1.78 million viewers across ABC/ESPN, NBC/Peacock, and Prime Video.

**  It landed right in line with NBC’s flagship Sunday Night Basketball package, which averaged 3.4 million viewers across its 11 games.

**  The NBA had 19 regular-season telecasts that reached at least 3 million viewers; this Fever game would have ranked among them. High-end examples from that group included a Celtics-Lakers Sunday night game at 5.6 million and a Knicks-Thunder game at 3.4 million.

Caitlin Clark is changing women’s sports.

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Canada joining the dysfunctional EU can only add to the structural chaos.

The Liberal-Globalists live in a mental world in which men can be women and illegal invaders can be citizens, so I guess when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney moves to make Canada a European Country, it does sound on-character.

In the wake of the breakdown in trade negotiations with Donald J. Trump’s US and the onset of a new trade war in North America, Carney is reorienting his priorities to be ever closer to the Euro-Globalists.

In a way, it does make a lot of sense in that Canadian Liberals like Carney love all the suicidal policies emanating from Brussels: unchecked mass migration, gay and trans propaganda, ‘net zero’ lunacy… the list is long.

But how would this EU-Canada axis operate in the real world? No one knows.

It arises today that Carney will address the European Parliament next month, just as, in the biased words of the European press, ‘Canada accuses the US of attacking its sovereignty’.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will address the European Union next month in a push to deepen ties with the bloc as his trade dispute with the US escalates. https://t.co/QUeaNmeQqY

— Bloomberg (@business) August 26, 2026

Euronews reported:

“The Canadian Prime Minister will address the European Parliament on September 17 and attend European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech, which sets out the EU’s policy priorities and political direction, a day prior.

While inviting guests of honor is not uncommon, Carney’s invitation is more political than in previous years, when Brussels opted for civil society figures and focused on Ukraine. The timing also follows Carney’s pledge to seek an ever-closer partnership with the EU as the US-Canada trade war escalates in a historic clash between the two.”

Pleased that @CanadianPM @MarkJCarney will attend the @Europarl_EN‘s Plenary Session in Strasbourg in September.

He will be a guest of honour at the State of the Union debate by @EU_Commission President @vonderleyen, before his formal address to MEPs.

The Prime Minister’s…

— Roberta Metsola (@EP_President) August 26, 2026

CBC reported:

“Over the last year, Canada has signed several new partnership agreements with the EU. It was also the first non-European country to become a member of Security Action for Europe, which provides €150 billion in loans for defence spending.

Carney’s visit is a strong sign of the close relationship between Canada and the EU, a spokesperson for the European Commission said.

It is meant to ‘clearly signal the intention and ambition on both sides to upgrade our partnership’, the spokesperson wrote in an email to CBC News.

‘In these challenging times, strengthening our relationships across the world is vital’.”

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The mainstream media and leftist government bureaucrats are at it again, pushing panic, fear, and unverified headlines to control the public narrative, only to get caught red-handed when local officials demand basic transparency.

During a high-profile press conference on Tuesay, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, alongside state health officials and Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, announced that two “measles-associated deaths” occurred in Lancaster County.

The legacy media immediately ran with the headlines. Two people died FROM measles. Case closed. Get the shot. Blame the unvaccinated. Blame RFK Jr.

There’s just one major problem: Local authorities have ZERO record of these alleged deaths.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called out the massive discrepancies and the state’s sudden refusal to share basic factual data.

Kennedy said Shapiro accused him of promoting “conspiracy theories” after Kennedy noted that some Americans have religious objections to MMR because of fetal-cell substrate used in manufacturing.

Shapiro reportedly snapped that there is “no fetal tissue in the MMR.” Kennedy responded that Shapiro could not produce a single example of HHS “misinformation” when asked, yet repeated the smear on camera anyway, while ignoring the fact that Pennsylvania’s own drop in vaccination rates largely occurred during the Biden years, a fact Shapiro reportedly admitted in a private call with RFK Jr.

RFK Jr.: “We are trying to get information about those two casualties. According to a statement that was released by the Lancaster County Commissioner today, they cannot find any measles deaths in Lancaster County, and they complain that the governor will not give them that information.

CDC tried to get that information from the governor yesterday, and the state is refusing to cooperate. We’re doing a better job than any country in the world at controlling the measles outbreak. This is a worldwide epidemic, and it’s happening because of the lockdowns, because many kids did not get vaccinated during the lockdowns.

Then you had a dramatic diminishment of public faith in the regulatory agencies during the COVID period because of government overreaching, because of the gaslighting and the manipulation.

So, even in my discussion with Governor Shapiro yesterday, he said to me, “Well, we’ve seen this big drop in vaccination rates in the state from 97 to 92.3.” He admitted on the phone that it all happened during the Biden administration.

Since I’ve been in office, since President Trump’s been in office, there’s been a one-tenth of 1% diminishment. We are actually restoring faith in the public health agencies so people will take our advice. And our advice is that people should get the measles vaccination.

There are certain communities and certain religious communities that don’t—won’t do that, and we want to take care of those kids as well.

So, Mexico has 11 times the amount of measles cases as we do. Canada has four times the amount of measles cases. Britain has two times.

Every place there’s been a measles outbreak, I’ve sent the CDC in to cooperate with the state health agencies, and we’ve brought it to an end overnight. The only state that won’t cooperate with us is Pennsylvania, and we can’t get any information.

The press is all covering this as if those measles deaths actually happened, but nobody’s doing the sort of—the little bit of critical inquiry to find out.

We’re trying to figure out, you know, who those deaths were and whether they actually happened, and we can’t figure that out yet.”

WATCH:

Then a locally elected official did the work the press would not.

Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons, a former prosecutor, went to the people who actually handle death investigations.

Any death from a communicable disease is required by law to be reported to the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office. Parsons spoke at length with senior staff and with Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni. Their answer: zero measles deaths in Lancaster County. They have one death of a person who died WITH measles, but not FROM measles. They know nothing about a second death.

Local reporting independently confirmed the same gap. Diamantoni said “no measles deaths were handled by our office,” while the office was investigating an infant who tested positive for measles and died of a ruptured spleen. Officials still will not say whether that infant is one of the two cases Shapiro put on national television.

Parsons noted that outreach to Penn Medicine LGH, the Governor’s office, and local public safety directors yielded absolute silence or a total lack of answers.

Parsons wrote:

“Measles questions.

Let’s be clear- when the Governor comes into our county and holds a press conference with PA Department of Health and Penn Medicine Lancaster general Health and states there were two “measles-associated deaths” here, with the underlying assertion that the two people died FROM measles, and they are the first deaths from measles in 35 years, and that announcement sets off numerous media reports uncritically repeating that two people died FROM measles in Lancaster County, and Lancaster County elected officials then get questions about this – it is totally fair for me to ask for relevant information on those deaths.

Asking questions is not “pro-measles.”

Asking for information that should have been provided at the press conference is not “anti-science.”

It is simply wanting the whole story for my constituents.

When officials who hold a big press conference and make big headlines – those officials owe us more than the headlines. They owe us the whole truth. They owe us accurate information by which the people of Lancaster County can make decisions about their health and safety.

It has been about 24 hours since the press conference. We do not have any answers. Of course journalists should also be asking these questions rather than uncritically repeating something.

Any deaths from measles are required by law to be reported to the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office. I have spoken at length with both a senior staff member from that office and the Coroner himself. They currently have zero measles deaths in Lancaster County. They have one death of a person who died WITH measles, but not from measles. We do not know if the state is counting that one. Nor do we know anything about the other death that officials reported yesterday.

Is there an unlikely scenario where a patient from here got measles and sought care outside of Lancaster County and died there and it was reported to another county coroner? Yes. I am open to that or other unlikely possibilities. But if one of these unlikely scenarios is the case, the people holding the press conference had, and currently have, a responsibility to provide that information.

The law DOES allow release of more information. Demographic information that does not identify the patient may be released.

I reached out to Penn Medicine LGH. No response.

I reached out the Governor’s office. No response.

I talked with our Lancaster County Department of Public Safety Director. He has no additional information from the state.

I asked questions this morning at our Board of Commissioners meeting of Commissioner Alice Yoder who was at the press conference yesterday and is a former official at Penn Medicine LGH. She did not have any answers. (This exchange is on video and will be available later today.)

So as of right now, we have ZERO information that corroborates the idea that there were two measles deaths in Lancaster County. Again, everything stated could be accurate. But no one in authority has been able to say that, nor have they even tried to say it.

To me it is a big deal if the Governor comes in and gives a press conference and then no one can or will identify simple details around what was stated and what then generated major news stories.

Transparency is owed to the people.

It is incumbent on those who held the press conference to clear this up.

Immediately.”

Measles questions.

Let’s be clear- when the Governor comes into our county and holds a press conference with PA Department of Health and Penn Medicine Lancaster general Health and states there were two “measles-associated deaths” here, with the underlying assertion that the two…

— Commissioner Josh Parsons (@CommissionerJP) August 26, 2026

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Violent crime fell at a record rate in President Trump’s first year back in office. It was the largest year-to-year decline since the Bureau began estimating crime trends in 1936, according to newly released FBI data.

Violent crime numbers decreased by 9.3% from 2024 to 2025.

The FBI reported: