EU leaders, and especially Germans, heaved a sigh of relief on Thursday 22 July when after two weeks of being beset by fears that Moscow would not restart
flows along the Nord Stream 1 pipeline when its 10 day scheduled maintenance operation was completed, the Russian gas company turned the gas back on, although only to its pre-maintenance level of about 40% of maximum capacity.
Their relief did not last however, as the USA, lead military power in NATO continued to supply Ukraine with long range artillery for its war with Russia. Germany the EU's largest economy by far and the most dependent of all NATO states on imported Russian gas to keep its electricity generating plants running and power flowing to business and domestic users was always a soft target for Russian reprisals. Many commentators in mainstream and new media had been
speculating that Russia might seize opportunity to
turn the screws on both literally and metaphorically, on Germany and its other EU customer sand that's
precisely what happened. Shortly after Siemens finally delivered transport documents for
the controversial Nord Stream turbine that had allegedly been stuck in Canada for
weeks, Gazprom unexpectedly announced it would halt one more Nord
Stream turbine at its Portovaya compressor station from July 27, “taking into account the technical conditions of the engine,” the Russian company says in a statement.
This means that as had been whispered much of last week, gas flows from Portovaya will drop to as much as 33 million cubic meters per day from 7am Moscow time on July 27, which means flows along NS1 will decline by half, from 40% of capacity to just 20%.
This is a disaster both economically and socially for Germany, where some communities have already had to introduce gas and electricity rationing. If the situation goes on for more than two or at most three weeks it will certainly drive the Germany economy into recession.
According to Bloomberg energy expert Javier Blas, with "Nord
Stream 1 flowing at just 20% of capacity from July 27, Germany will NOT
have enough natural gas to make it throughout the whole winter **unless
big demand reductions are implemented. Berlin will need to activate
stage 3 of its gas emergency program."
Translation: unless Putin changes his mind, Germany is facing not just a freezing winter, but a bitter recession.
Needless to say, Germany was not happy with the latest reminder who holds all the cards in Europe. Unfortunately the single word that defines the USA's Biden administration is 'demented' and having committed to supporting Ukraine until the war is won the senile president's handlers are unlikely to bite the bullet and admit that Ukraine cannot defeat Russia for the sake of helping a loyal ally like Germany.
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Russian Long Range Missile Test Fuels Nuclear War Fears As NATO Pushed Ukraine To Escalate Conflict Russia tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile yeserday, the Satan II has a range of 10,000 miles and can devastate an area of 250,000 square kilometers according to military experts. Bizarrely commentators in mainsteam and online news services portrayed this as a sign of weakness by Russia, though the same people cheered when Joe (Dementiaman) Biden threratened a nuclear response if Russia crossed his 'red lines' in Ukraine ...
Looking at the financial data earlier today I noticed that the Russian rouble is now worth more against the US dollar than it was before conflict broke out in Ukraine. On the 22nd of February this year, one US dollar would exchange for
just over 79 rubles. As of the time of writing, it is now 78 ...
Russia-Ukraine crisis will put more pressure on the global food supply chain, driving up prices around the world After three weeks of non-violent civil disobedience outside the Canadian parliament in Ottawa by truckers and other Canadian citizens struggling to uphold their right to not be subjected to forced “vaccination,” Justin Trudeau unleashed the goon squads. Thousands of militarized riot police (and other unidentified heavily-armed operatives) swarmed the area, surrounded the protesters, started breaking into trucks and arresting people, and beating them with batons and the butts of their rifles.
Putin, Macron To Hold Urgent Talks To Halt Military Escalation In Ukraine Even though the leaders of Ukraine itself are talking down the threat of war with Russia over the breakaway region of Donbas, America and Britain are still beating the war drums and demonising Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Russia insists they have no plans to invade Ukraine and one western leader at least, France's Emmanuel Macron, seems to be listening to messages coming out of the East European trouble spot...
Germany News Mag. Spiegel Asks "Is Vladimir Putin Right?" About NATO Expansion As the confrontation along the border between Ukraine and Russia has escalated to actual shooting with ethnic Russian rebel separatists in Donbas reporting intensified shelling and initiating a "general mobilization" of military-age males, with Moscow denying they plan to invade and Ukraine's leaders accusing US, UK and French leaders of hysteria for talking up the threat of war, Germany's leading newspaper Spiegel asks the question fundamental to the entire conflict...
Mainstream media's hyping of the threat to Ukrained posed by Russian aggression is the latest in a long line of attempts to lay blame for western foreign policy disasters at the fet of Russia. In fact had Joe Biden not started to babble about Russian aggression, talking up the threat of conflict, there would be no crisis ...
Is The Russian Threat To Invade Ukraine Real Or A Globalist Conspiracy Theory?
While Joe Biden's handlers in Washington and Boris Johnson In London talk up the threat of war should Russia invade Ukraine as they claim Moscow is preparing to do,Ukrainian leaders are dismissive, accusing the west of ramping up hysteria in a bid to divert attention from oither problems ... Continue reading >>>
British Government Laundered Fake U.S. 'Intelligence' On Ukraine The British government on Saturday accused Russia of organizing a plot to install a pro-Moscow government in Ukraine, as the Kremlin masses troops near the Ukrainian border. The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office gave relatively little information about the intelligence unveiled Saturday other than to say that the Russian government was considering trying to make a Russia-leaning former member of Ukraine’s parliament, Yevhen Murayev, the country’s new leader. Continue reading >>>
As the COVID narrative crumbles under the weight of evidence that the vaccines do not work, masks are useless and lockdowns kill more than they save a new scaremongering narrative - or a revamped old one - is emerging as the threat of war with russia is the latest fear and panic vehicle to scare the people into compliance with tyranny.
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We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.
Even If The War In Ukraine Ends, Sanctions Will Stay - So How Bad Will The Food Crisis Get? Western leaders, desperate to show their own countries they were taking a firm stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, were quick to impose economic sanctions ... so quick in fact that they acted before they had though things through. While freezing Russia out of the global finance system they have exacerbated the wests energy crisis, while Russia's retaliatory ban on raw materials (fertiliser) exports will create extra problems on top of those we already had ...
As our Currency Wars page has been warning for years,China and Russia are preparing to take down the the U.S. dollar and replace it with their own global reserve currency.What may seem bizarre to people who rely on mainstream media for their news, there has been no mention at all of this event in the print or broadcast media of the USA, UK or European Union member states.
It was always on the cards that Russia, China and rest of the BRICS countries would use the CIA / NATO engineered war in Ukraine to launch the main thrust of their economic war on the west, in fact after having written so much in our Currency Wars page about the inevitability of Russia and China challenging the US dollar’s global reserve status, now, it’s happening we can only say: "We Told You So".
It
should not surprise anyone who has been paying attention for the past few years, and in particular the current year to date, that Russia and
China are strengthening their economic ties partly in response to Western
sanctions on Russia as a result of the country’s war in Ukraine and partly because with COVID, Climate Change, the fuel crisis, runaway inflation, food shortages and the war vying for media attention it is an ideal time for Russia and China to make their move. And they have been preparing this dollar replacement strategy for at least the eight years we have been writing about it, and probably longer.
What is more likely to surprise politicians and the economists who advise them however, is that rest of the BRICS countries,
Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, have joined Russia in the effort and are officially working on their own “new global reserve currency,”RT reported in late June. Three of these were supposed to be the west's allies and fully supportive of sanctions and isolating Russia economically and politically It seems those mainstream media writers who were quick to declare VladimirPutin a busted flush will have to eat their words as the Russian leader has outsmarted them all as they stood in line waaiting to kiss zelenskyyyyy's Ukrainian arse.
“The issue of creating an international reserve currency based on a basket of currencies of our countries is being worked out,” Vladimir Putin said at the BRICS business forum last month.
And as we reported IN 2015 Russia, in collaboration with China set up its own system for processing international financial transactions, almost as if The Kremlin anticipated the western powers would cut off Russian companies from the SWIFT system. With this system in place for several years it will not be difficult to work with China and the BRICS nations to develop “reliable
alternative mechanisms for international payments” in order to “cut
reliance on the Western financial system.”
In the meantime, and again as we predicted earlier this year,
Russia is also taking steps to strengthen the alliance between
BRICS nations, including re-routing trade to China and India, and via proxies to the west in order to beat sanctions according to CNN:
President
Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is rerouting trade to
"reliable international partners" such as Brazil, India, China and South
Africa as the West attempts to sever economic ties.
"We are
actively engaged in reorienting our trade flows and foreign economic
contacts towards reliable international partners, primarily the BRICS
countries," Putin said in his opening video address to the participants
of the virtual BRICS Summit.
In
fact, “trade between Russia and the BRICS countries increased by 38%
and reached $45 billion in the first three months of the year” this
year, according to that report. Meanwhile, Russian crude sales to China have hit
record numbers during Spring of this year, replacing Saudi Arabia as
China’s primary oil supplier.
"Together with BRICS partners, we are developing reliable alternative mechanisms for international settlements," Putin said.
In June, Putin also accused the West
of ignoring"the basic principles of [the] market economy" such as free
trade. "It undermines business interests on a global scale, negatively
affecting the wellbeing of people, in effect, of all countries," he
said. Love him or hate him you have to admire Vlad's chutzpah.
President Xi echoed Putin’s sentiments, according to a June writeup by Bloomberg.
It is gobsmacking stunned that nobody in western media or the politcal establishment seems to
care that arguably the largest shift on the global macroeconomic playing
field over the last half century may be taking place.The whole balance of power is being shifted from west to east, aided and abetted by incompetent, virtue signalling retard politicians who have been quite happy to let a seventeen year od Swedish schoolgirl dicate energy and economic policy to them. No wonder the Russian and Chinese leaders are running rings round them.
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primary denominator of value. Should this turn out to be the case we can expect an acceleration of the shift in geopolitical power from west to East.
We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.
Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...
More Nations backing Away From The US$ Russia Just Sent out a Message NATO Should Better Listen To
The key paragraph from the latest official Russian naval doctrine is that Putin and his military advisers have sent a clear message that NATO encroachment is unacceptable. To be honest, there is nothing earth shattering in this, The Daily Stirrer and many other alternative media news and analysis sites have been warning for about two years that Obama's foreign policy was making conflict inevitable.
In view of the hysterical repoting from mainstream media in print and broadcast news formats about the recently released report from The World Health Organisation containing estimates of Covid-related deaths
internationally during the pandemic, one could be forgiven for suspecting we are all dead and nobody bothered to tell us.
The measurement used to crank up the fear and panic generator to eleve has been the decidedly dodgy 'excess deaths' which is the difference between the number who died of all causes during the pandemic and the number who, on average, died in that period of the year and geopolitical region before the pandemic struck. This enabled sceptics to make comparisons between the British figures and excess deaths for the rest of Europe per 100,000 of the population. And when this blog and other people who have done so crunched the numbers it turns out The UK is not, after all, at the top of the death-league by miles because we all died, some of us several times. In fact the UK sits around the middle of the European excess deaths Champions League.
This is similar to the outcome when, a few weeks ago, the UK Office of National sStatistics (ONS) revealed that around 19.2 million people in ENGLAND alone (i.e. not the whole UK,) have not had a single shot of the non vaccine that does not protect anyone from COVID but appears to make them more vulnerable. The propaganda put out by governments and dutifully parroted by television news and the papers that only 3 million ignorant, irresponsible people continued to pose a threat to the (vaccinated) majority by refusing a single dose of the clotshot.
Though the methodology used to compile the report has attracted serious criticism from neutral statisticians, what really struck most of us alt_news sceptics has, predictably, been ignored by authors of any of the media reports and commentaries on the report I’ve seen, which have all focused on our outcome relative to those of other European countries. We did better than Italy, Spain and Germany but worse than France (but can the cheese eating surrender monkeys' figures be trusted?) when throughout the pandemic media reports had been spun to create the impression that we were doing exceptionally badly.
What's really interesting however, is while we are not much different to most of our near European neighbours,
Italy, Germany and Spain, for example, had excess deaths
respectively of 133, 116, and 111 per 100,000. Britain’s figure was 109.
Even the United States was only 140, just ahead of Italy. Differences in the way countries counted or how they defined excess deaths could easily account for the variations in numbers. When we look at the figures a from a different angle, firstly, it is difficult to spot any obvious correlation between the pandemic--suppressing measures taken by different members of the WHO, and the outcomes in terms of excess mortality. This suggests
we should have been more suspicious about the measures imposed by governments (lockdowns, mask mandates, travel restrictions etc.) as on the strength of available evidence that none had been successful, which is what epidemiologists who did not have a financial relationship with the companies that make up the Big Pharma Cartel, the World Heath Organisation, national governments or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic charity that has made $£€billions out of the pandemic, had predicted.
Mask-wearing was far less common in Sweden than in Britain, yet we had twice as many excess
deaths, though most Swedes live in urban environments, like us. There’s a strong case for serious and exhaustive study of the role of masks, and of the harm they may have caused particularly to people with respiratory problems. We should be demanding that before such measures as mandatory making and lockdowns are imposed again there are controlled trials involving the study of human volunteers. There seems to be some kind of academic horror at this kind of scientific rigour, the sciencetits who rather worhip their mathematical models of a human population, a virus and a pandemic..
Many of us among the 19.2 million vaccine refusniks lost confidence in health advice from doctors, government agencies and media 'experts' a long time ago because it was established in proper scientific trials years ago that surface contact (touching stuff) does not constitute a a significant risk of contracting a virus. In spite of this official advice on washing out hands and using sanitizers rich in carcinogenic chemicals has not been corrected, there remain (at some economic and environmental cost) signs and hand-gel dispensers everywhere, wipes are still being distributed and cleaners are still prancing around dabbing at bannisters and hand-holds.
It is a similar story on wearing masks, studies in 2020 showed that the cheap masks handed out everywhere did nothing, zro, zilch, to prevent or slow the spread of COVID and even the more expensive surgical masks had little effect. Yet bot kinds of mask had significant adverse effects relation to non COVID related problems.
Why should we
believe a government agency, scientific research establishment, academic institution on anything else, if the
official advice on this has not changed and they are still pushing these completely ineffective measures and clamouring for more lockdowns which are now known to not only have been an economic disaster but also triggered a pandemic of mental health problems?
Here, though, is the thing that should not have shocked me (because the
figures were broadly known) but did (because I did not know them). Some
109 excess deaths per 100,000 in Britain may be twice Sweden’s rate –
but it’s still tiny! That’s about one person in a thousand. I had not
properly understood how light the casualties have been in the developed
world. And though it’s sad when anyone dies at any age, the average
Covid-related casualty in Britain has been in the last ten years of his
or her expected life, so viewed in terms of years lost the damage is far
less severe than that inflicted by epidemics that target the young as
well as old.
Yes,
yes, ‘one death is one death too many’ etc, and no, I didn’t know these
victims personally and if I had I might feel differently. All true
enough. But how I feel is not the point. We do need to be able to count.
When we count dispassionately we see a pandemic that took relatively
few people away. Looking at the past 30 years, the pandemic did cause a
sharp year-on-year difference, but there have been others.
Yet
in trying to slow its spread (we were honest about that limited
ambition, unlike the Australians, New Zealanders, Chinese and South
Koreans) we took a two-year wrecking ball to our economy and to the
educational and job prospects, not to say the mental health, of millions
of our young people.
Rishi Sunak Reveals How Boris Sold Us Out To Big Pharma and Globalism it seems most people in Boris Johnson's cabinet during the run up to lockdowns were kept in the dark about many things, including the fact that 'The Science' on which lockdown policy was based was not science at all. Government was effectively reduced to a “quad” of ministers and their 'scientific advisers' deciding on Britain’s future. Rishi Sunak, at that time Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance secretary) was one of them. There were rumours at the time that Sunak repeatedly warned that lockdowns would inflict economic damage that was likely to endure for decades.
“There
are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One
of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the
diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all
regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private.
Everything is public.”
- Philip K. Dick
Nothing is private.
We teeter on the cusp of a cultural, technological and societal revolution the likes of which have never been seen before.
While the political Left and Right continue to make abortion the face of the debate over the right to privacy in
America, the government and its corporate partners, aided by rapidly
advancing technology, are reshaping the world into one in which there is
no privacy at all.
Nothing that was once private is protected.
We
have not even begun to register the fallout from the tsunami bearing
down upon us in the form of AI (artificial intelligence) surveillance,
and yet it is already re-orienting our world into one in which freedom
is almost unrecognizable.
AI surveillance harnesses the
power of artificial intelligence and widespread surveillance technology
to do what the police state lacks the manpower and resources to do efficiently or effectively: be everywhere, watch everyone and everything, monitor, identify, catalogue, cross-check, cross-reference, and collude.
Everything that was once private is now up for grabs to the right buyer.
Governments
and corporations alike have heedlessly adopted AI surveillance
technologies without any care or concern for their long-term impact on
the rights of the citizenry.
As a special report by the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace warns, “A growing number of states are
deploying advanced AI surveillance tools to monitor, track, and surveil
citizens to accomplish a range of policy objectives—some lawful, others
that violate human rights, and many of which fall into a murky middle ground.”
Indeed,
with every new AI surveillance technology that is adopted and deployed
without any regard for privacy, Fourth Amendment rights and due process,
the rights of the citizenry are being marginalized, undermined and
eviscerated.
Cue the rise of digital authoritarianism.
Digital authoritarianism,
as the Center for Strategic and International Studies cautions,
involves the use of information technology to surveil, repress, and
manipulate the populace, endangering human rights and civil liberties,
and co-opting and corrupting the foundational principles of democratic
and open societies, “including freedom of movement, the right to speak
freely and express political dissent, and the right to personal privacy,
online and off.”
The seeds of digital authoritarianism were
planted in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, with the passage of the USA
Patriot Act. A massive 342-page wish list of expanded powers for the FBI
and CIA, the Patriot Act justified broader domestic surveillance, the
logic being that if government agents knew more about each American,
they could distinguish the terrorists from law-abiding citizens. ... Continue reading >>>
Despite the fact that they represent only the interests of big business, big finance and themselves, the oligarchs of the World Economic Forum are now calling for a policy of merging human and artificial intelligence
systems so that computer chips implanted in our brain can edit and censor “hate speech” and “misinformation” online before it is articulated trough spoken of written word online.
Algorithms Are No Better At Telling The Future Than Tarot Cards Or A Crystal Ball According to a new report “An increasing number of businesses are investing in advanced technologies that can help them forecast the future of their workforce and gain a competitive advantage”. Almost every day we see more bollocks being written by supposedly intelligent people who believe that by using things called ‘Data Science’, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ and ‘Big Data’, machines can already be relied on to make better decisions than humans, and that soon computers will equal or even surpass us in actual intelligence. ...
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Proof That The Alarmist Claptrap You Are Hearing And Seeing At COP26 Climate Conference Is A Load Of Bollocks The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places, the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions in the Arctic zone. Expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm ... Continue reading >>>
German politician calls on facebook to abolish free speech
A German politician has given the clearest indication yet that the political elites of the free world are ideologically much closer to Adolf Hitler's National Socialists than the social liberalism they claim to support. Free speech is the basis of all liberal democracy. Heiko Maas, the German justice minister has has written to the Facebook it removes “xenophobic and racist” anti-migrant posts from its website and apps., has written to the company to demand an urgent review of its policy over hate messages.
Free Speech Is Being Murdered By The Media And Left Wing Authoritarianism
Without free speech there is no democracy. Without democracy there is no freedom. But all over the developed world free speech is under attack from politically correct politics. It is time to start resisting, do not believe the propaganda published by mainstream media, question everything and make up your own mind. as The Buddha said, "Believe nothing you read or are told unless it agrees with your own experience and common sense."
Farage Reckless Facing Rabid Left Wing Fanatics
Following the defection to UKIP of Conservative MP Mark Reckless, who yesterday shocked the media and political establishment (everyone else knew it was on the cards.) by announcing his switch from con to Kipper from the podium at the closing session of UKIP's conference, the Kippers latest recruit and his new leader yesterday faced angry but ineffectual protests.
Obama administration ‘blocking' information from the press
Uncovering information that should be available to the public has become increasingly difficult under the presidency of Barack Obama, an Associated Press bureau chief says. In some cases, it surpasses the secrecy of the George W. Bush administration. The White House's penchant for secrecy does not just apply to the federal government, according to AP's Washington bureau chief, Sally Buzbee.
Research from anti - woke campaign group Don’t Divide Us (DDU), which works to challenge identity politics and other 'wokw' ideologies of the far left paints a troubling picture of how divisive, identitarian policies based on Critical Race Theory are being introduced to the curriculum in state schools across England and Wales.
DDU sent over 170 freedom-of-information
requests to local authorities, and responses show that one in four councils (23 per
cent) endorse a biased and divisive (anti - white racist?) version of race relations in their
education departments. This model asserts that white people
are racist, whether they realise it or not, and that UK society is systemically racist. And it treats contested ideas, such as
‘structural racism’, ‘white privilege’ and ‘unconscious bias’, as fact. Basically it is propaganda aimed at brainwashing British kids into supporting black supremacist groups.
This new, virulent approach to opposing racism is very different from racial equality campaigns of the past. Rather than aiming to challenge the
discrimination that denied certain groups the same
rights and freedoms as the majority, the ideology behind this new , racist
anti-racism does not seek equality. It is a form of identity
politics that is intended to divide society along racial lines.
We should not be teaching children that they are living in a racist society but that all members of society are equal and have the same rights and privileges. That so many local authorities consider teaching hate and resentment a legitimate educational goal should worry us all. Encouraging schools
to adopt this approach will not cultivate individuals capable of
independent thinking, but that has always been the aim of the left, one need only read the novels of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, themselves socialists but opposed to authoritarianism to confirm this. Teaching Critical Race Theory will only create new activists for this new, nasty, dictatorial
corrupted form of anti-racism.
The DDU research also highlights the proliferating number of
third-party organisations now working in the education sector. Among the councils that have approved teaching Critical Race Theory, 88 per
cent partner with third-party organisations and the GayBLT group Stonewall. These overtly political groups are
invited into schools to provide training and curriculum materials,
often without any independent scrutiny.
Anti – racism protestors enjoy their immunity? It must be well known to our readers that the collective opinion of contributors to this blog on “scientists” and “experts” is that they are all wankers. This does not include practicioners of the sciences who have the self awareness to describe themselves as chemists, biologists, physicists, medical … Continue reading
Ten Truths You Can’t Tell In Britain Without Being Accused Of Racism.
by Arthur Foxake The screenshot below is from an article written by Trevor Phillips, former head of the Equalities and Human Rights commission for The Daily Mail (or Mail On Sunday) Trevor Philips home truths on racism. Image source Finally, we?re having that open and honest debate about immigration and race everyone has been calling … Continue reading
Only Whites Can Be Racist? Google Rewrites Dictionary As Well As History
if we look at the Huffington Post article that 'establishes beyond reasonable doubt' it is not possible to be racist to a white person, we find the "credible" sources quoted in defense of their controversial conclusion on reverse racism is actually one black supremacist, the auteur of the 2014 film, "Dear White People." The racist hatred of whites portrayed in the film is palpable.
Politician Blasts Conviction For Speaking The Truth On Anti-Semitism In Europe
A Danish politician has been reprimanded for posting comments on Twitter about the resurgence of anti semitism in Europe. Apparently while hand wringing and breast beating about violent attacks on Jewish people is fine, stating the obvious by linking the Europe migrant crisis to this new wave of anti Semitism is a criminal offence ...
White Girl Is Burned Alive, 17 Black Gang Members Arrested. Mainstream Media Blanks The Story
Remember how the Social Justice Warriors of the politically correct 'left' screamed when a young black man named Trayvon Martin was shot by Hispanic George Zimmerman, because it was assumed someone named Zimmerman would be white? Remember how they wailed and stirred up civil unrest when a black man was shot by white cops in Ferguson, Missouri, automatically assuming the the killing was racially motivated. more >>>
Politician Blasts Conviction For Speaking The Truth On Anti-Semitism In Europe
A Danish politician has been reprimanded for posting comments on Twitter about the resurgence of anti semitism in Europe. Apparently while hand wringing and breast beating about violent attacks on Jewish people is fine, stating the obvious by linking the Europe migrant crisis to this new wave of anti Semitism is a criminal offence ...
15 More Men of South Asian Descent Charged With Child Sex Offences
West Yorkshire Police have charged 14 men and a 16-year-old boy with sex offences including the rape of a girl under the age of 16 in Keighley, a small town in the old Woollen Industry distict of the county. The offences centre on one female victim, with one allegation involving a second who was also under 16 at the time.
Racist Student Union Officer says 'I Can't be Racist'
We have often made points about the hypocroisy of the left, but a Student Union diversity officer from London beats all comers. Having tweeted 'kill all white men' she justifies herself by saying that as an ethnic minority woman she cannot be racist or bigoted.
Multi-Cultural England: Are You Feeling The Progressive Diversity That's Enriching Your Life
Visit some parts of most British cities with large immigrant populations and you will be hard pressed to recognize it, certainly my granparents would struggle to recognize the towns they knew. Appeasement of foreigners has destroyed the character of our communities but as usual the political left advise solving the problem by doing over again the things that caused it.
US Soldiers Forced To Sit Through P C 'White Privilege Presentation. Not Happy Bunnies The U.S. Army is investigating an unauthorized diversity training presentation on “white privilege” shown to hundreds of Georgia soldiers, USA Today reported, citing an Army spokeswoman. The Equal Opportunity training presentation was shown to about 400 soldiers of the 67th Signal Battalion at Fort Gordon on Thursday, according to Captain Lindsay Roman.
If a black person acts like a twat is it racist to say he's a twat.
Examples of US rapper Kayne West behaving in ways that show what a cupid stunt he is occur to frequently for mainstream media to report them any more it seems. Or maybe it's just that because Kayne is an African American those mainstream journos were afraid of being called racist if they report his latest fuckwittery.
The British Jihad, Islamism And The Curse Of Multiculturalism.
As the world recoils in horror at images posted on the internet of an American journalist being cruelly and brutally beheaded by an (allegedly) British terrorist fighting for the extremists of the Islamic State in northern Iraq, we ask is the left wing folly of multiculturalism coming home to roost.
Shock; horror. Human Barbie Doll has her own opinions
The human Barbie girl Valeria Lukyanova has become something of an online phenomenon and is regarded as a sex symbol by many young men of the kind who have more computers than friends. Personally I find her apearance bizarre and about as sexually alluring as cold porridge. Still each to there own, where would we be without diversity of opinion.
‘White Racism’
For too long the neo – Fascist left have been allowed to get away with dividing all of humanity into two racial groups, black and white. This has allowed those extremists who support the idea of an authoritarian, global government to dub white people generally as racist, because we have (again generally)been more successful throughout … Continue reading
Even Left Wing News Sites Are Turning On The Bigots Who Screech Racism
The backlash had to come. With the leftie screechers getting so ridiculous in the way they tried to find ‘waycism’ in every utterance of white conservatives, non aligned voters and non voters, anyone who did not have ‘I love blacks, gays and rapists so long as they are foreigners’ tattooed across their forehead’ even the … Continue reading
The German Government publicly acknowledged on Wednesday that the
Covid vaccines cause serious side effects for one in every 5,000 doses.
A tweet from the Ministry of Health stated
(via Google translate): “One in 5,000 people is affected by a serious
side effect after a COVID19 vaccination. If you suspect sideeffects,
get medical attention and report your symptoms to @PEI_Germany.”
It later added a correction that the figure related to the reporting
rate and to doses rather than individuals: “Correction: According to
@PEI_Germany, the reporting rate for serious reactions is 0.2 reports
per 1,000 vaccine doses.”
This is an unusual and welcome admission from a Government, and
perhaps the beginning of governments properly acknowledging the scale of
injuries caused by the novel Covid vaccines.
However, the one in 5,000 figure is certainly on the low side. The
correction tweet clarified that it was a reporting rate of serious
reactions, and it appears from the PEI website
to refer to the rate of adverse event reports to the German equivalent
of the Yellow Card and VAERS passive reporting systems. Assuming this is
correct, then we might expect an under-reporting factor of around 10, meaning the true number of serious side-effects may be 10 times higher.
The Germans are actually very good at monitoring vaccine safety. In
addition to their passive reporting system, the German medicines
regulator, the PEI, runs an active vaccine safety monitoring app called SafeVac 2.0. The data from this monitoring tool were included in a Europe-wide report
on vaccine safety published last month; they showed that 0.3% of
vaccine recipients in Germany reported at least one serious adverse
reaction to the first dose of the vaccine. ... Continue reading
Cancer expert says U.K. seeing spike in “non-covid deaths,” nobody willing to call out vaccine elephant in the room
Excess mortality in the United Kingdom is off the charts, and yet nobody is willing to call out Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines” as the culprit. Cancer expert and Prof. Carl Heneghan describes the current situation in Great Britain as a “national scandal.” A shocking 9,300 more people than usual have died in the U.K. over the past several months, and officials are blaming everything else except the injections.
Continue reading >>>
In A Fit Of Honesty Italian Institute Of Health Reduces Official COVID Death Toll By 97% Italian newspaper Il Tempo has published a shock report, claiming that the country's Institute has reduced the official figure for the number of people who have died from COVID from 130,000 to under 4,000. This may surprise many people who bought into the "killer virus" narrative and unleashed torrents of pure hatred on those of us who declined vaccination, having studied the figure for reported "COVID related deaths," and the methodology used to arrive at that figure ...
Continue reading >>>
A newly published study from researchers in Sweden reveals that the immunity to COVID gained from vaccination, is dissipated by natural biological processes within months. Immunity, although it would be more honestly called temporary respite, from Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) injections is short term at best, and completely gone within months, this confirming the doubts raised by vaccine sceptics (or Conspiracy Theorists as mainstream media likes to call us
Continue reading >>>
Surge in Emergency Hospital Admissions from Vaccinated People Suffering Acute Organ FailureThe USA's taxpayer funded broadcaster National Public Radio (NPR) is claiming to be mystified by a siginficant increase in hospital emergency admissions across the United States but does not find the fact that these medical emergencies are all among people already vaccinated against COVID-19 and also all due to people experiencing symptoms consistent with the acknowledged side effects of the vaccines. Continue reading >>>
Analyst Reports ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of COVID Vaccine Injury Reports Backlogged in VAERSThe latest episode of “Doctors and Scientists” on CHD.TV, features regular host Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., interviewing Jessica Rose, Ph.D., a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) analyst and computational biologist who specializes in biomathematics and molecular research. OK, I know this publication does not have much time for mathematical modelling, but that is because so much of it is obviously rigged to support propaganda narratives. We will always give an honest scientist a fair hearing even if we do not agree with their contribution to debate. Continue reading >>>
Boris’ Government Trying To Bypass Parliament, Introduce Vaccine Passports By Back Door We warned you this authoritarian government would not let the idea of vaccine passports go and here they are, reported by Summit News (well you didn't expect to see it in mainstream media did you?} tyring to bring in their wretched "Papers Please" legislation by the back door.
“There
are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One
of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the
diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all
regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private.
Everything is public.”
- Philip K. Dick
Nothing is private.
We teeter on the cusp of a cultural, technological and societal revolution the likes of which have never been seen before.
While the political Left and Right continue to make abortion the face of the debate over the right to privacy in
America, the government and its corporate partners, aided by rapidly
advancing technology, are reshaping the world into one in which there is
no privacy at all.
Nothing that was once private is protected.
We
have not even begun to register the fallout from the tsunami bearing
down upon us in the form of AI (artificial intelligence) surveillance,
and yet it is already re-orienting our world into one in which freedom
is almost unrecognizable.
AI surveillance harnesses the
power of artificial intelligence and widespread surveillance technology
to do what the police state lacks the manpower and resources to do efficiently or effectively: be everywhere, watch everyone and everything, monitor, identify, catalogue, cross-check, cross-reference, and collude.
Everything that was once private is now up for grabs to the right buyer.
Governments
and corporations alike have heedlessly adopted AI surveillance
technologies without any care or concern for their long-term impact on
the rights of the citizenry.
As a special report by the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace warns, “A growing number of states are
deploying advanced AI surveillance tools to monitor, track, and surveil
citizens to accomplish a range of policy objectives—some lawful, others
that violate human rights, and many of which fall into a murky middle ground.”
Indeed,
with every new AI surveillance technology that is adopted and deployed
without any regard for privacy, Fourth Amendment rights and due process,
the rights of the citizenry are being marginalized, undermined and
eviscerated.
Cue the rise of digital authoritarianism.
Digital authoritarianism,
as the Center for Strategic and International Studies cautions,
involves the use of information technology to surveil, repress, and
manipulate the populace, endangering human rights and civil liberties,
and co-opting and corrupting the foundational principles of democratic
and open societies, “including freedom of movement, the right to speak
freely and express political dissent, and the right to personal privacy,
online and off.”
The seeds of digital authoritarianism were
planted in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, with the passage of the USA
Patriot Act. A massive 342-page wish list of expanded powers for the FBI
and CIA, the Patriot Act justified broader domestic surveillance, the
logic being that if government agents knew more about each American,
they could distinguish the terrorists from law-abiding citizens. ... Continue reading >>>
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Proof That The Alarmist Claptrap You Are Hearing And Seeing At COP26 Climate Conference Is A Load Of Bollocks The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places, the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions in the Arctic zone. Expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm ... Continue reading >>>
German politician calls on facebook to abolish free speech
A German politician has given the clearest indication yet that the political elites of the free world are ideologically much closer to Adolf Hitler's National Socialists than the social liberalism they claim to support. Free speech is the basis of all liberal democracy. Heiko Maas, the German justice minister has has written to the Facebook it removes “xenophobic and racist” anti-migrant posts from its website and apps., has written to the company to demand an urgent review of its policy over hate messages.
Free Speech Is Being Murdered By The Media And Left Wing Authoritarianism
Without free speech there is no democracy. Without democracy there is no freedom. But all over the developed world free speech is under attack from politically correct politics. It is time to start resisting, do not believe the propaganda published by mainstream media, question everything and make up your own mind. as The Buddha said, "Believe nothing you read or are told unless it agrees with your own experience and common sense."
Farage Reckless Facing Rabid Left Wing Fanatics
Following the defection to UKIP of Conservative MP Mark Reckless, who yesterday shocked the media and political establishment (everyone else knew it was on the cards.) by announcing his switch from con to Kipper from the podium at the closing session of UKIP's conference, the Kippers latest recruit and his new leader yesterday faced angry but ineffectual protests.
Obama administration ‘blocking' information from the press
Uncovering information that should be available to the public has become increasingly difficult under the presidency of Barack Obama, an Associated Press bureau chief says. In some cases, it surpasses the secrecy of the George W. Bush administration. The White House's penchant for secrecy does not just apply to the federal government, according to AP's Washington bureau chief, Sally Buzbee.
The German Government publicly acknowledged on Wednesday that the
Covid vaccines cause serious side effects for one in every 5,000 doses.
A tweet from the Ministry of Health stated
(via Google translate): “One in 5,000 people is affected by a serious
side effect after a COVID19 #vaccination. If you suspect #sideeffects,
get medical attention and report your symptoms to @PEI_Germany.”
It later added a correction that the figure related to the reporting
rate and to doses rather than individuals: “Correction: According to
@PEI_Germany, the reporting rate for serious reactions is 0.2 reports
per 1,000 vaccine doses.”
This is an unusual and welcome admission from a Government, and
perhaps the beginning of governments properly acknowledging the scale of
injuries caused by the novel Covid vaccines.
However, the one in 5,000 figure is certainly on the low side. The
correction tweet clarified that it was a reporting rate of serious
reactions, and it appears from the PEI website
to refer to the rate of adverse event reports to the German equivalent
of the Yellow Card and VAERS passive reporting systems. Assuming this is
correct, then we might expect an under-reporting factor of around 10, meaning the true number of serious side-effects may be 10 times higher.
The Germans are actually very good at monitoring vaccine safety. In
addition to their passive reporting system, the German medicines
regulator, the PEI, runs an active vaccine safety monitoring app called SafeVac 2.0. The data from this monitoring tool were included in a Europe-wide report
on vaccine safety published last month; they showed that 0.3% of
vaccine recipients in Germany reported at least one serious adverse
reaction to the first dose of the vaccine. ... Continue reading
Cancer expert says U.K. seeing spike in “non-covid deaths,” nobody willing to call out vaccine elephant in the room
Excess mortality in the United Kingdom is off the charts, and yet nobody is willing to call out Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines” as the culprit. Cancer expert and Prof. Carl Heneghan describes the current situation in Great Britain as a “national scandal.” A shocking 9,300 more people than usual have died in the U.K. over the past several months, and officials are blaming everything else except the injections.
Continue reading >>>
In A Fit Of Honesty Italian Institute Of Health Reduces Official COVID Death Toll By 97% Italian newspaper Il Tempo has published a shock report, claiming that the country's Institute has reduced the official figure for the number of people who have died from COVID from 130,000 to under 4,000. This may surprise many people who bought into the "killer virus" narrative and unleashed torrents of pure hatred on those of us who declined vaccination, having studied the figure for reported "COVID related deaths," and the methodology used to arrive at that figure ...
Continue reading >>>
A newly published study from researchers in Sweden reveals that the immunity to COVID gained from vaccination, is dissipated by natural biological processes within months. Immunity, although it would be more honestly called temporary respite, from Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) injections is short term at best, and completely gone within months, this confirming the doubts raised by vaccine sceptics (or Conspiracy Theorists as mainstream media likes to call us
Continue reading >>>
Surge in Emergency Hospital Admissions from Vaccinated People Suffering Acute Organ FailureThe USA's taxpayer funded broadcaster National Public Radio (NPR) is claiming to be mystified by a siginficant increase in hospital emergency admissions across the United States but does not find the fact that these medical emergencies are all among people already vaccinated against COVID-19 and also all due to people experiencing symptoms consistent with the acknowledged side effects of the vaccines. Continue reading >>>
Analyst Reports ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of COVID Vaccine Injury Reports Backlogged in VAERSThe latest episode of “Doctors and Scientists” on CHD.TV, features regular host Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., interviewing Jessica Rose, Ph.D., a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) analyst and computational biologist who specializes in biomathematics and molecular research. OK, I know this publication does not have much time for mathematical modelling, but that is because so much of it is obviously rigged to support propaganda narratives. We will always give an honest scientist a fair hearing even if we do not agree with their contribution to debate. Continue reading >>>
Boris’ Government Trying To Bypass Parliament, Introduce Vaccine Passports By Back Door We warned you this authoritarian government would not let the idea of vaccine passports go and here they are, reported by Summit News (well you didn't expect to see it in mainstream media did you?} tyring to bring in their wretched "Papers Please" legislation by the back door.
While
Britain bakes in a heatwave, politicians in Germany are worrying about
the winter. The Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom has notified
its European customers that it can no longer guarantee the supply of
fuel due to ‘extraordinary’ circumstances. In Berlin, politicians and
regulators are preparing for an ice-cold Christmas, drawing up lists for
rationing priorities and emergency plans to stop the population
freezing.
Entertainment and frivolities will be the first things to go,
while newspapers and medical production will be prioritised alongside
households and hospitals. Mothballed coal power plants are being prepared for reactivation. Some local governments are planning to turn public buildings into ‘warming halls’ for those unable to heat their homes or turn off traffic lights, setting up ‘industrial-scale dormitories’.
The
most heated debate is whether the government should prioritise
residential consumption over the economy. While current plans aim to
sacrifice economic output in favour of keeping homes warm, industry
groups are pushing back, claiming a shutdown would be the ‘worst crisis
since the second world war’. The charity Caritas has also come out
against the plans, warning that gas is needed ‘to produce basic
foodstuffs like milk and essential medicines’, and ‘blood reserves for
the gravely injured’. One set of estimates reckoned a full shutdown would cost Germany 2 per cent of GDP and 400,000 jobs; another put the cost closer to 12 per cent of output.
Take
a step back and appreciate the insanity of these paragraphs. A 21st
century European country is warning households to prepare for rolling
power cuts as the state attempts to keep the economy functioning without
fuel. Housing associations are already rationing hot water and heating
as prices rise; a full shut-down would be exponentially worse.
The
Nord Stream 1 pipeline carrying gas from Russia to Germany is currently
down for scheduled maintenance, with supplies scheduled to resume on
Thursday. The concern in European capitals is that the tap won’t be
turned back on. Prior to the shutdown, Gazprom had already cut flows
significantly, claiming that the absence of a replacement turbine – held
up by sanctions – was to blame. German sources rejected this claim,
pointing out that the new part wasn’t intended for use until September.
Instead, the disruption looks like a reminder: push us too far, and we
will turn off the taps.
As EU energy ministers EU wait with bated breath to see if Russia restarts the pumps that pusg gas through the NordStream1 pipeline on after their 10 days downtime for scheduled maintenance on 22nd of this month, the European Commission, while publicly reiterating its committment to wind and solar as the future of electricity generation, has approved a 5.4 billion euro package for the research and development of hydrogen power.
Hydrogen
is often wrongly hailed as the solution to “climate change” and carbon
emissions (which are not a legitimate threat to the planet in any way,
as shown by the NOAA's own temperature data and the mere 1 DEGREE Celsius rise in world temps in the past century).
Hydrogen is a notoriously difficult and expensive fuel to produce in terms of efficiency.
For hydrogen to be completely green, it must be produced by
electrolyzing water, which splits into the H2 and O that its molecules of. Hydrogen fuel
cells consistently prove to be substandard and lose 30% their energy in
the process of splitting H2 from Oxygen, on top of the 26% energy loss
from transporting the electrolyzing water. Not looking good so far is it?
Why
is EU leadership continuing to pursue fairy tale technologies when they have access to CO2 free energy production in the form of nuclear
power? While nuclear power is often demonized by environmentalists, it
is an actual “zero emissions” source that is already developed and
waiting to take over from coal and gas (fossil fuels.). If they actually cared about an immediate
reduction in carbon output, governments would stop wasting their time
and taxpapers money on terribly inefficient windmill farms and dream
technologies like hydrogen and focus on “clean” energy sources that are
already proven.
Hydro electric power is great so long as the green lobby don't mind a few valleys being flooded, tidal barrages could be great if the green lobby were willing to sacrifice the habitat of an endangered species of two toed toad or something. And nuclear is great so long as we understand the difference in danger level between a nuclear power station fuel rod and weapons grade plutonium.
The main downside to nuclear power in reality is the cost,
which is around $15 billion per plant. But the EU has already spent
$232 billion from 2014 to 2020 on climate change initiatives that have
apparently been useless because they are still spreading hysteria about
global warming to this day and are still having to burn coal and gas because their beloved windmills and solar panels have failed miserably to live up to expectations. They could have built dozens of nuclear
plants across Europe in that time and been done with it.
But,
they won't do that, because climate change movements are not about
science, they are about ideology, and part of their ideology is about
bringing down industry and undermining capitalism. Nuclear power
doesn't fit the image and works a little too well from industry's point of view, so, they
ignore it.
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"Our Country Is Facing The Biggest Crisis The Crisis We Ever Had": German Employers' Association Warns Over Russian Gas Cut With the Nord Stream 1 pipeline closed for maintenance, with the possibility that President Putin will not allow it to reopen at the end of the scheduled 10 days downtime in retaliation for the EU's continued support or Ukraine in their conflict with Russia, Germany is facing an unprecedented crisis that could erase the prosperity Germans have grown accustomed to, warned Rainer Dulger, head of the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations.
Net Zero Is A Dangerous Fantasy, But Scientists Believe In Fairies It Seems With oil and gas prices rocketing and the highly propted sustainable energy sources performing way befow expectations the energy crisis currently gripping Europe (with worse to come as food shortages start to bite, polticians still seem more intent on pandering to the green lobby and chasing the dream of a fossil fuel free world rather securing the energy and food supplies needed by the people they serve.
A Mostly Wind- & Solar-Powered US Economy Is A Dangerous Fantasy When President Biden and other advocates of wind and solar generation speak, they appear to believe that the challenge posed is just a matter of currently having too much fossil fuel generation and not enough wind and solar; and therefore, accomplishing the transition to "net zero" will be a simple matter of building sufficient wind and solar facilities and having those facilities replace the current ones that use the fossil fuels.
We need energy security – not Net Zero Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.
Net Zero Gone With The Wind - Boris Johnson Plans Seven New Nuclear Plants And Shelves Wind Expansion Reports in mainstream media suggest Boris Johnson has done a U turn on his recently announced massive expansion of wind powered generating capacity. Sources in Westminster claim Boris has shelved his masterplan for a giant, floating wind farm in The North Sea and the government will reconsider plans to double or even treble the number of wind turbines in the countryside and approve plans for up to seven new nuclear reactors instead.
We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.
Debunked: The Great Renewable Green Delusion The war in Ukraine has not caused the global energy crisis of early 2022 byt merely exacerbated it. Currently the nations currently in conflict with Russia over its incursion into Ukraine are those which are most dependent for their energy needs on Russian oil and gas. And now their loonytoons 'net zero' green energy policies have failed they are biting the hand that feeds them.
Boris and Biden Can't Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis With typical arrogance and condescension towards the people who elected them Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and their respectiive presstitutes are trying to spin the energy crisis Europe and North America are currently facing as somehow being linked to the conflict in Ukraine and therfore blame is being attactched to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe such unmitigated bollocks? ...
Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...
We Told You So - Government-funded Report Confirms World’s Largest offshore Wind Farm is UnprofitableA report commissioned by the Norwegian government has contradicted Boris Johnson’s recent claim that offshore wind costs have fallen by 70% in a decade. The report also blows a huge hole in Johnson's grandiose pledges to the COP26 conference that offshore wind power would propel Britain to its net - zero target for Carbon Dioxide emissions well before 2050, the target set by the climate conference for achieving that target. Continue reading >>>
COP26 Climate Conference - Just Another Elitist Scam To Steal Your Money If you are one of the people who still relies on mainstream media for information, the 'on - message' news reports coming from the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow this week, and during the build up to the conference, might have convinced you that the entire world (barring a few crazy conspiacy theorists,) is signed up to the 'net zero' agenda and believes that destroying the economies of the developed nations while exporting our jobs, business and prosperity to places like India and China is the only way to save the planet.
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Green Dreams Menu It may be driven by virtue signalling or self hatred but the urge to destroy civilisation in order to save the planet and the ideological agenda that drive the gree movement are too far removed from the realities of life to ever achieve their aims.
There is, of course, a LOT going on… and fast. This is both a time to
really pay attention and also a time to ensure we do not get caught up
in a panic making irrational decisions that hurt us later. For that one
needs to step away from the fray and attempt to view things from a
different perspective.
Before we dive in, I think it worth asking
the question. What ISN’T being talked about and that is, of course,
Taiwan. You’ll recall that I’ve always said that power abhors a vacuum,
and the power vacuum being left by the US globally would be filled. It
always happens. The catastrophically conducted withdrawal from
Afghanistan really was the icing on the cake. It was a signal to
American allies that America can’t be trusted. It was a signal to
America’s foes that America was weak. Nobody was going to take America
seriously again after that fiasco. And so here we are.
BORIS Johnson is accusing Vladimir Putin of war crimes in the Ukraine
after describing air strikes which have killed civilians and hit the
Babi Yar Holocaust memorial as barbaric and indiscriminate. The
International Criminal Court at The Hague is already considering an
investigation into the Russian president’s liability.
Would Putin ever stand trial? Unlikely but not impossible. The ICC
successfully went after Serb leaders for their acts during the war in
Yugoslavia, forcing the country to hand them over under threat of
sanctions after peace had been restored.
Russia, however, is not Serbia. It is too big to defeat by
conventional means and has a huge nuclear arsenal whereas Serbia was
primitively equipped only to fight a Balkan war. Post-Soviet Russia has
rebuilt itself as a superpower under Putin. It has already been hit with
some of the stiffest sanctions the West can muster.
Strangely, Nato countries including the US are still importing the
Russian oil and gas on which they depend. No western politician has
explained the morality of trading with an enemy in wartime although we
all know the reason.
It’s unlikely anyway that Putin went to war without being certain
that any sanctions could be weathered once President Biden had signalled
that the US and Nato would not get involved in the fighting. Nato has
sent arms but has refused to deploy troops in Ukraine or to make its
airspace a no-fly zone for the Russian air force.
In a sense, Johnson and the ICC are demanding victor’s justice before winning; we don’t know yet how the crisis will end.
Does Nato have any responsibility for what has happened? The answer
is certainly yes. Biden could stop the fighting tomorrow and save
Ukraine more suffering if he agreed to Putin’s demand for an East-West
security settlement in central Europe which removed Nato from Russia’s
western border. This is clear to ordinary people if not their leaders.
If Putin is a war criminal, what about George W Bush and Tony Blair,
who lied their way into an unprovoked war against Iraq? Presidents
Obama and Sarkozy and UK prime minister David Cameron destroyed Libya at
the behest of anti-Gaddafi rebels after he unwisely scrapped nuclear
weapons.
These elective wars cost hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Perversely the Libyan rebels were anti-western Islamists who later
murdered an American ambassador.
It appears that the western governments who created the ICC exempt
themselves from accountability to its prosecutors, who sensibly
recognise hypocrisy when they smell it and don’t ask.
The
US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. The end result could
be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity
shortages worldwide...
While politicians and media in the western 'democracies' have been playing "We the guys in white hats, they the guys in black hats over the kerfuffle between Russian and Ukraine the real war is being fought on a very different battlefield. BoJo and Biden the two circus clowns of the western alliance can bluster all they want, the fact is while public attention is diverted by propaganda form each side about the atrocities of the other in Ukraine, in the battle being fought in financial and commodity markets, Putin has the NATO alliance by the bollocks.
Prior to the outbreak of hostilities Europe was in the throes of an energy crisis due mainly to the folloy of green energy obsessions leading to energy policies which entailed reliance on unreliable and intermittent sources such as wind and solar farms, with the only fallback being imported oil and natural gas from Russia. The USA, while not in as bad a position as their European allies, are experiencing problems of their own with rising energy costs driving millions of homes into poverty.
On top of that, and a few days behind this blog it has to be said, mainstream media seems to be catching on to the fact that Russia and Ukraine are key suppliers of wheat, maize and food - oil crops, supplying around a third of the total wheat exported around the world. It's unlikely Ukrain will be producing its usual quantities of these essential foods, it's rather difficult to tend and harvest crops when the bombs and shells are falling on your fields and the majority of the workforce have been conscripted into the military. And Russia? As sanctions hit, either nations will be barred from buying Russian wheat by sanctions imposed on trade, or Russia will stop exporting wheat and its other crops in retaliation for the sanctions. Either way this will force up food prices and the overall cost of living.
And then there is the impending fertilizer crisis, again this blog reported a week ago that Russia produces around two thirds of the world's ammonium nitrate, the main ingredient in commercial fertilizers. Foreseeing the imposition of western sanctions the Russian government blocked all exports of Ammonium Nitrate early in February. This will result in vast reductions in crop yields, with a knock on effect on food availability and prices in the shopes of European and American towns.
In spite ofg all this, government economists and economics correspondents in the west are still insisting these NATO sanctions , particularly removing several Russian banks from the SWIFT international finance system and confiscating a few mansions and luxury yachts owned by oligarchs will
will “ruin Russia financially,” As this does not align with the view of our own economics experts, Phil T. Looker, we looked for any analysis of the situation that owed more to facts than to a desire to remain in the safety of the herd. Michael Hudson, co - author of a revised edition of the must-read critique of American economic bullying, Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire. is one of the few economists to break ranks.
Hudson
remarked how he is “simply numbed over the near-atomic escalation of
the US.” On the confiscation of Russian foreign reserves and cut-off
from SWIFT,observes he the main point is “it will force Russia to put
in a new system, with China. The result will end dollarization for good,
as countries threatened with ‘democracy’ or displaying diplomatic
independence will be afraid to use US banks.”
In reality there is no need to speculate on how quickly a new
Russia-China payment system bypassing SWIFT, and combining the Russian
SPFS (System for Transfer of Financial Messages) with the Chinese CIPS
(Cross-Border Interbank Payment System), it is already in place. Hudson has no doubts “the
Russian-China system will be expanded. The Global South, Africa where many nations are quietly supporting Putin and South East Asia where nobody wants to antagonise The Chinese, will seek to
join and at the same time keep SWIFT – moving their reserves into the
new system.”
This,
Hudson says, leads us to “the great question: whether Europe and the
Dollar Bloc will be able to buy raw materials controlled by Russia and China, not just food crops and fossil fuels but lithium, cobalt, palladium, rare earth metals etc, which are essential to high tech industries, particularlt the manufacture of batteries for electric cars which the powers that be have decided we must all be driving by the end of the decade and
whether China will join Russia in a minerals boycott.” Again we see that western political and business leaders have not thought their policies through, while pursing a campaign of provoking Russia for the past ten years they have not given a moments consideration to the consequences of the confrontation the assiduously sought, hoping it would provide the pretext for recruiting Ukraine into the NATO alliance, thus continuing the encirclement of Russia.
Russia’s Central Bank has foreign bank assets and gold which it can use to prop up the Rouble in curreny exchange markets and defend the economy. The ruble has plunged in western markets but Russia has plenty of buyers elsewhere for its commodities. There will be new trade routes via proxies. It is up to Russia to decide whether to sell its wheat to the west where customers will pay top price or Asia and Africa where it is needed; or to stop selling oil, gas and fertilizer to Europe and the USA. The problem is Russia has very little trade with the west apart from in the commodities mentioned here. Sanctions imposed so far do not prevent European nations buying Russian gas and oil. China and the Arab state will no doubt be happy to act as middlemen for other commodities and charge an enormous premium for receiving an invoice and sending out a new one.
The propaganda we are fed in western news may suggest Ukrainian resistance is thwarting Russian advances everywhere but in the real economic battlefield it looks like Russia is winning hands down.
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What
they got instead was Russia’s deterrence forces bumped up to “a special
regime of duty” – which means the Northern and Pacific fleets, the
Long-Range Aviation Command, strategic bombers and the entire Russian
nuclear apparatus on maximum alert.
One Pentagon general very
quickly did the basic math on that, and mere minutes later, a Ukrainian
delegation was dispatched to conduct negotiations with Russia in an
undisclosed location in Gomel, Belarus.
Meanwhile, in the vassal
realms, the German government was busy “setting limits to warmongers
like Putin” – quite a rich undertaking considering that Berlin never set
any such limits for western warmongers who bombed Yugoslavia, invaded
Iraq, or destroyed Libya in complete violation of international law.
While
openly proclaiming their desire to “stop the development of Russian
industry,” damage its economy, and “ruin Russia” – echoing American
edicts on Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Cuba, Venezuela and others in the
Global South – the Germans could not possibly recognize a new
categorical imperative.
They were finally liberated from
their WWII culpability complex by none other than Russian President
Vladimir Putin. Germany is finally free to support and weaponize
neo-Nazis out in the open all over again – now of the Ukrainian Azov
battalion variety.
To get the hang of how these NATO sanctions
will “ruin Russia,” I asked for the succinct analysis of one of the most
competent economic minds on the planet, Michael Hudson, author, among
others, of a revised edition of the must-read Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire.
Hudson
remarked how he is “simply numbed over the near-atomic escalation of
the US.” On the confiscation of Russian foreign reserves and cut-off
from SWIFT, the main point is “it will take some time for Russia to put
in a new system, with China. The result will end dollarization for good,
as countries threatened with ‘democracy’ or displaying diplomatic
independence will be afraid to use US banks.”
This,
Hudson says, leads us to “the great question: whether Europe and the
Dollar Bloc can buy Russian raw materials – cobalt, palladium, etc, and
whether China will join Russia in a minerals boycott.”
Hudson is
adamant that “Russia’s Central Bank, of course, has foreign bank assets
in order to intervene in exchange markets to defend its currency from
fluctuations. The ruble has plunged. There will be new exchange rates.
Yet it’s up to Russia to decide whether to sell its wheat to West Asia,
that needs it; or to stop selling gas to Europe via Ukraine, now that
the US can grab it.”
About the possible introduction of a new
Russia-China payment system bypassing SWIFT, and combining the Russian
SPFS (System for Transfer of Financial Messages) with the Chinese CIPS
(Cross-Border Interbank Payment System), Hudson has no doubts “the
Russian-China system will be implemented. The Global South will seek to
join and at the same time keep SWIFT – moving their reserves into the
new system.”
I’m going to de-dollarize myself
So
the US itself, in another massive strategic blunder, will speed up
de-dollarization. As the managing director of Bocom International Hong
Hao told the Global Times, with energy trade between Europe and
Russia de-dollarized, “that will be the beginning of the disintegration
of dollar hegemony.”
It’s a refrain the US administration was
quietly hearing last week from some of its own largest multinational
banks, including notables like JPMorgan and Citigroup.
Uninteded Consequences - How Sanctions On Russia Will Hit The West
Ammonium Nitrate mine - not an environmentally friendly industry (Picture: https://www.orica.com/
A few days ago we posted on the impact a full trade embargo on Russia if a full scale war was launched against Ukraine, crippling that nation economically and logistically. Few people realise how much of the world's wheat, corn and edible oil producing crops are produced on the vast fertile plains of those nations and loss of Ukranian and Russian grain and edible oil exports to many North African, Middle Eastern and South East Asian nations will in the medium term have just as great an impact as the loss of Russian gas suplies to some EU member states.
For the longer term however, there is an even greater problem.
Russia produces roughly two-thirds of the world’s ammonia nitrate. And in February this year the Russian government, aware of the direction in which US and NATO emboldening of the puppet regime in Kiev was inevitably leading, the government of Russia did this:
Russia imposed a temporary ban on ammonium nitrate export for two months, until April. The Kremlin's the press service released this statement:
“This is a temporary measure. The remaining volume can be
exported from April , when Russian companies will receive the ammonium
nitrate in required volume and the demand for it on the domestic market
will pass peak values,” First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov
said.
Ammonium nitrate, so what's the big deal if those ISIS goons can't make their IEDs for a while? you might well ask.
Well OK, ammonium nitrate is used in explosives, both legitimately and by terrorists so the world (apart from Ukraine,) might be a slightly safer place for a while. However the main use of this chemical compound is in agriculture where it is an essential component of commercial fertilizers
Usually sold in the
form of pellets which are coated with clay the compound is probably the most important of all growing aids from food crops apart from water. The high nitrogen amount in
this compound is the main reason why it is very popular in agriculture.
Nitrogen is an important plant nutrient that assists in the metabolic
processes and growth that the plant undergoes. But nitrogen is a gas so it must be put into the soil in captive form in order for the plant to absorb it.
And if there is a shortage of commercial fertilizers it means food prices will inevitably go up. And they will go up a lot as crop yields are reduced. This is mega - important. Any economist will tell you that when food costs increase to exceed 30% of disposable income, protests, riots, civil
unrest and possibly regime change become highly probable. We have seen it recently in France where the Yellow Vests movement of 2018 and 2019 started as protests against rising fuel prices caused by President Macron's green energy policies, then expanded into riots over rising living costs and stagnant incomes.
There are deposits of Ammoinum Nitrate around the world, Australia, USA and Canada spring to mind, but as has become the norm. lobbying from the Green blob over environmental concerns has led to restrictions and taxes which make the industry economically unviable for operators in the developed nations. So once again Putin has us by the bollocks.
It seems that while Dementia Joe Biden, Bumbling BoJo the Clown and the rest of the western leadership have been blustering about imposing ball - crushing sanctions on Russia if Putin dared to move against Ukraine, old Vlad was busy gtting his retaliation in first by banning exports of this vital substance until we have passed the point at which it can be any use for this years crops. Which means by next winter there will be widespread food shortages and spiralling cost increases on staple food products.
And if the USA, EU and the rest of the globalist alliance impose a trade embargo once this temporary ban is lifted, the problems will continue for longer.
Maybe not 2022, but at
some point in the next few years we’re almost guaranteed a breakdown of law and order, and
maybe regime change in countries whichone would expect only political stability. We are already seeing it in Canada, and as mentioned above in France without any additional stirring from Vladimir Putin.
The message everybody needs to take on board is thatwe’re going to have a food crisis and
resource nationalism as a substitute for armed conflict is going to become more popular than free fudge brownies.
Belarus
will ban oil and chemical products from crossing its territory from
Lithuania, including fertilisers, in response to Lithuania’s decision to
stop the transit of potash fertiliser from Belarus, the Belarusian
foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
The ban comes into
effect on Feb. 7, the ministry said, adding that the products in
question amounted to 1.6 million tonnes a year, and were worth more than
$1 billion.
Lithuania ceased transporting the potash, a
major cash earner for Belarus, after the Vilnius government decided the
transit goes against its national security interests.
Could
it be that the market is waking up to what we’ve been hammering on
about for two years now? That we’re going to have a food crisis and
resource nationalism is going to become more popular than a “cancel Joe
Rogan party” at Gavin Newsom’s place.
Here are two you should own if you don’t already:
Spanish Populists to Enter Government for First Time After Regional Deal
Spanish populist-conservative party VOX is set
to enter government in Castile and León following a historic deal with
the conservative People’s Party (PP) that will see VOX enter its first
government in the party’s history.
Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, head of the PP in Castile and León,
announced on Thursday that his party had come to a deal with VOX to form
the next regional government, saying
the parties had reached an agreement “that allows a stable and solid
government with full respect for the constitutional order and the
Statute of Autonomy of Castile and León.”
Juan GarcÃa-Gallardo, who headed the VOX campaign in the region,
confirmed the deal stating, “We celebrate today a sensible agreement,
without winners or losers. Together, with a desire for dialogue and
agreement, let us make a useful legislature for the citizens. Serving
Castile and León must be our way of serving Spain.”
The agreement comes weeks after the regional election
in Castile and León, which was held on February 13th and saw VOX surge
from just a single regional seat with 5.5 per cent of the vote in the
last election in 2019, to 17.6 per cent of the vote and 13 seats.
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