Massive Protest In Brussels Over Cost Of Living Crisis

by Arthur Foxake, 21 September 2022

More than 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of the Belgian capital to protest against skyrocketing prices 

 

 

 

Protestors blocked the streets of Brussels, demanding better working conditions and a sufficient increase in wages to maintain lifestyles in the face of rising costs of living in Brussels, Belgium on September 21, 2022. ©  Dursun Aydemir / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Thousands of protestors gridlocked the streets of belgian capital city Brussels on Wednesday 21 September for a “national day of action” in support of trade union demands for higher wages and lower energy prices. According to Belgian police, over 10,000 people from all over Belgium gathered in capital as items in broadcast and print news revealed that an estimated 65% of the country’s households are struggling to pay their bills.

The demonstration was organized by Belgian trade unions, who claim that the average energy bill for families in the country has increased by 300% to more than €700 ($691) a month since the beginning of the year.

“It’s not that we don’t want to pay, but we can’t pay,” said Thierry Bodson, chairman of the General Labor Federation of Belgium, as he addressed thousands of union members at the Place de la Monnaie. With the average income for a Belgian family only amounting to €2,500 ($2,468) a month, Bodson asserted that it’s “absolutely impossible” for someone below that line to pay their bills.

Referencing the government’s advice that citizens  use less energy, Bodson said this was “pointless,” as most families have already cut back as far as possible on energy use to lower their bills but it has still not been enough to counter the steep rise in gas and electricity prices.

Placards seen in the crowds shared Bodson’s sentiments with slogans demanding “Freeze prices, not peoplbeene,” and “Everything is going up except our wages.”

The protesters are demanding that the government do more to combat skyrocketing food and fuel prices, and advising that additional help for families be funded by a windfall tax on energy companies that have reported record profits this year and made billions while the standard of living for average income groups has plummeted.

Last month, Belgium’s Statbel statistics agency reported that inflation in the country had jumped to 9.94% amid a surge in energy prices, almost reaching a record set in 1976.

Meanwhile, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo has warned that “the next five to ten winters will be difficult” due to record gas prices, but stated that Belgium would endure the crisis “if we support each other in these difficult times.”

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Without offering any evidence in support of its allegation the article states that a large number of businesses are on the verge of bankruptcy. 

There is some truth in the article of course but the problems began long before war broke out in Ukraine. The continuing influx of of illiterate, unemployasble immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and Ukraine is pushing government spending ever higher  spending and causing unsustainable tensions in European societies as the newcomers refuse to abide by European laws and civilised standards of behaviour. 

While this is going on, vast amounts of money are being thrown away in supporting the neo - Nazi nutters of the Kiev regime in their hopeless war against Russia. As a result, Europe’s economies are contracting at an alarming rate and living standards are plummeting.

In Britain many small businesses are stuggling due to higher energy costs according to a report from the analytical group Make UK, represents the interests of British manufacturing industry. 13% of British factories have reduced working hours and 7% are considering temporary shut downs temporarily closing down. Energy costs have risen by more than 100% compared to last year and all this has come while businesses were still trying to recover from the disastrous effects of the COVID panemic and associated lockdowns.

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Olaf Scholz, Germany's hapless chancellor acknowledged that many Germans faced with rising prices for fuel and food are struggling to make ends meet. The situation in Germany is exacerbated by the curtailment of gas supplies from Russia, and by food shortages Most countries in Europe are in a similar situation but the ruling bureaucrats of the EU are prepared to sacrifice quality of life and economic prosperity in order to continue their efforts to wage economic war on Russia and to advance the self destructive, loonytoons energy policy in pursuit of the Green blob's dream of 'net zero.'.

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Germany Gas Russia Ukraine War Sanctions Energy Crisis Recession Protests are underway all over Europe as households battle high energy prices Credit: Alex Kraus/Reuters

 

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The report claims the RAND Corporation a defence and foreign policy think tank founded by military aircraft maker Douglas to prvoide the US government with research and analysis services and is fubded to the tune of $350 million annually by US taxpayers, and has the official aim of improving policies and decision-making, is the source of its evidence. RAND Corporation is primarily connected to the United States Department of Defense and is infamous for having been influential in the development of military and other strategies during the Cold War.

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“Only European countries bound by EU and NATO commitments can provide us with these without significant military and political costs for us.”

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A key objective of the strategy outlined in the document is to drive a wedge between Germany and Russia, thus disrupting an economic partnership that could seariously threaten to derail US ambitions to become a global hegemon. A Germany - Russia partnership, with France as a third partner, is seen as the greatest economic and political threat to the United States.

”If implemented, this scenario will eventually turn Europe into not only an economic, but also a political competitor to the United States.”, it declares.

Though we should treat any such claimed leaks with extreme scepticism this part of the document makes sense.

The USA and UK are traditional allies and while the UK was a member of the European Union it could be relied on to block any expansion of Russian influence in Brussels. Once the UK was out, Germany and France could dominate the other EU member states as they had always tried to do. The other large population EU members, Italy, Spain and Poland are economic basket cases and could easily be coerced through economic pressure. In order to crush the potential political threat of a working partnership involving German and French technical and industrial strength allied to Russia's vast energy and mineral resources and agricultural abundance, a strategic plan, primarily focused on destroying the German economy, is presented.

“Stopping Russian deliveries could create a systematic crisis that would be devastating for the German economy and indirectly for the European Union as a whole”, it states, adding that the key is to draw the European countries into war.

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The sanctions imposed by European Union member states, the UK, Switzerland Norway and other NATO member states against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine in February this year will rank in as the biggest self inflicted kick in the bollocks throughout recorded history, and the best example in living memory of the disastrous consequences of how not thinking things through properly can result in disastrous unintended consequences. 

 While seeking to punish Russia by cutting off gas and oil imports, European Union politicians, in their zeal to embrace the groupthink and follow the crowd, managed to overlook the fact that their embracing the groupthink on climate change and 'net zero' energy policies they had made Europe dependent on Russian energy supplies , with absolutely no fallback position and that the only people to suffer were those imports shut down would be the people of Europe and European national economies.

Egged on by the American idiot - president, 'Dementia Joe Biden,' European leaders charged ahead with sanctions on imports of energy, fertilizer and other essential commodities, confident that the Russian economy would collapse in days and Vladimir Putin would have no option to to agree a ceasefire on whatever terms NATO saw fit to offer. USA led NATO terms because, let's be honest, this was never a war between Ukraine and Russia, it was the long planned proxy war between the USA and Russia fought on Ukrainian soil and using Ukrainian army personnel as cannon fodder and Ukrainian civilians for target practice.

Russians however play their own games and make up the rules as they go along and The Kremlin simply pivoted to the south and east and found plenty of new buyers for its oil, gas and other commodities in China, India, and elsewhere. In fact, Russia’s state-run Gazprom energy company has reported that its profits have increased by 100 percent in the first half of this year.

Russia's economy is booming while Europeans are facing a freezing winter , food shortages, fuel shortages power cuts, hyper - inflation, a cost of living crisis and economic collapse. All because of the false belief that sanctions are a cost-free way to force other countries to bow to your diktat.

What happens when the people on the shitty end of these stupid policies see energy bills skyrocket as the economy grounds to a halt? They become desperate and take to the streets in protest, civil unrests further disrupts the economic and social fabric.

This weekend thousands of Austrians took to the streets in a “Freedom Rally” to demand an end to sanctions and the opening of Nord Stream II, the gas pipeline on the verge of opening earlier this year. The protestors demanded government action to curb the rising cost of living and the insane increases in energy costs..

Some people condemned the Austrian government for failing the people and called for the lifting of “suicidal sanctions” against Russia and for Austria to break ranks with NATO and declare neutrality. Others condemned NATO’s belligerent nature, which is pushing Europe towards an unprecedented militarization. Austrian newspaper Heute quoted local police as saying the number of people at the scene was expected to reach 30,000.

Similar protests took place in Prague, the Czech capital, last Saturday (September 3). According to local sources, more than 70,000 Czechs poured into Wenceslas Square, to complain that the Czech government had failed to solve the energy crisis and should resign.

After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Western countries increased sanctions on Russia, disrupting the supply of energy markets and causing European energy prices to soar. After Russia recently announced the indefinite shutdown of the “North Stream-1” gas pipeline, the European energy crisis has further fermented.

Not only that, the Group of Seven (G7) also wants to set a price cap on Russian natural gas. The Russian side responded that it would not work in a non-competitive environment, and Gazprom would completely cut off its supply to EU countries.

Even the Washington Post, a cheerleader for escalation throughout the conflict, was forced to admit that sanctions on Russia are not having the intended effect. In an article yesterday (15 September), the paper worries that sanctions are inflicting “collateral damage far beyond the intended target, potentially even hurting the very countries that impose them. Some even worried that the sanctions intended to deter and weaken Putin could end up emboldening and strengthening him.”

This is all predictable. Sanctions kill. Sometimes they kill innocents in the country targeted for destruction and sometimes they kill innocents in the country imposing them. The solution, as always, is non-intervention. No sanctions, no “color revolutions,” no meddling. It’s really that simple.

 

 

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Ukraine SitRep - Russian Airstrike On Dam Endangers Ukrainian Troops - Russians Defeat More Counterattacks

 

Western mainstream media continues to misrepresent US &NATO war propagands from Ukraine as if it is factual news when in fact every snipped of information to come out of Ukraine is distorted to echo the narrative that Ukraine is winning the war and Russia is on its knees militarily and economically. As we have tried to show by reporting whatever verifiable information we could gather, this is a long way from the truth. 

While broadcast and print news organisations continued today to echo the false narrative that Ukrainian troops were continuing their push to drive occupying Russian forces out of southern and eastern Ukraine the big story was only half told.

Ukraine war: Houses flooded after missiles hit major dam (BBC News)

         Russian missiles have hit a reservoir dam near the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih,                     officials         say.

Residents in some areas were told to evacuate, city head Oleksandr Vilkul said, but he added the situation was under control.

Ukraine said the strike was revenge by Russia for its recent counter-attack.

President Volodymyr Zelensky - who was born in the city - described Russia as a "terrorist state" after the attack on the Karachunivske reservoir.

"You are weaklings who fight civilians," Mr Zelensky said in his late night address on Wednesday. "Scoundrels who, having escaped from the battlefield, are trying to do harm from somewhere far away."

This was an apparent reference to Ukraine's recent military successes in a swift counter-offensive in the country's north-eastern Kharkiv region. It has seen Ukraine's army reclaim swathes of occupied territory, forcing Russian troops to retreat.

In his speech, Mr Zelensky said the reservoir had "no military value at all".

Zelenski is a clown by profession we should remind ourselves.

The BBC story failed to mention that the Ingulet river, on which the dam is situated, flows mainly north to south through Kryvyi Rih (Russian spelling: Krivoi Rog, Кривой Рог) to then turn southwest before it  joins the Dnieper.

Here is a larger overview of the area. The Ukrainian position beyond the Ingulet is on the bottom left.

(Pictures: LiveUAmap)

LiveUAmap placed the bombed dam (yellow circled red bomb at the top) at a dam on a different reservoir northeast of Kryvyi Rih. After comparing pictures in the BBC report with aerial pictures it appears that dam hit is on a larger reservoir west of Kryvyi Rih. This is also consistent with reports of damage to water supplies in the city. It is a matter of public record that the city's water water comes from the larger dam.

The Russian attack had a clear strategic value. It is not a 'terrorist' act as Zelensky says, his country has been waging war on Russian speaking areas of Ukraine since 2014 and Kievs failure to honour the Minsk agreement of 2014 and constants provocation of Russia are responsible for triggering the war. Destruction of water, electricity and transport infrastructure for military purposes are a standard tactic in modern military operations and we did not see western media complaining when these tactics were used in a more heavy handed way in US / NATO led actions in Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. Back in Aprilwhen the war was only two months old the Ukrainian side flooded large areas north of Kiev to stop Russian troops from moving towards the city. As the New York Times reported at that time:

All around Demydiv, a village north of Kyiv, residents have been grappling with the aftermath of a severe flood, which under ordinary circumstances would have been yet another misfortune for a people under attack by Russia.

This time, though, it was a tactical victory. The Ukrainians flooded the village intentionally, along with a vast expanse of fields and bogs around it, creating a quagmire that thwarted a Russian tank assault on Kyiv and bought the army precious time to prepare defenses.

The residents of Demydiv paid the price in the rivers of dank green floodwater that engulfed many of their homes. And they couldn’t be more pleased.

After their counterstrike into the Kharkov region, from which Russian forces had withdrawn with only minor losses, the Ukrainian military have fallen into the teap of believing their own propaganda. North of Kharkov the Ukrainian army attacked Russian villages and positions across the border.

Ukrainian troops also attempted to attack Lyman which is protecting the southern side of the remaining Russian positions in the Kharkov oblast. Professional Russian troops have now been moved there to replace Luhansk Peoples Republic's militia which had held the city. They will remove the Ukrainian troops hiding in the forests north of the Siverski Donets river.

The Ukrainians also attempted several smaller counterattacks on Russian positions in the Donbas region. All of those failed.

An expected large Ukrainian attack in the south of the Donbas region towards Mariupol has not yet happened but the Ukrainian side has increased its reconnaissance activities in the area east of Zaporizhzhia.

Does that read as if Russia is 'on its knees' and that total victory is in sight for the Ukrainians (and if you want to believe that is true, just remind yourself that mainstream media have been reporting that a Ukrainian victory was within reach since the first week of the war.

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