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Germany's Energy Suicide: An Autopsy

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 20:19 UTC
The EU has weaponized the supply of European energy on behalf of a financial racket, against the interests of European industry and consumers.

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When Green fanatic Robert Habeck, posing as Germany's Economy Minister, said earlier this week "we should expect the worst" in terms of energy security, he conveniently forgot to spell out how the whole farce is a Made in Germany cum Made in Brussels crisis.

Flickers of intelligence at least still glow in rare Western latitudes, as indispensable strategic analyst William Engdahl, author of A Century of Oil, released a sharp, concise summary revealing the skeletons in the glamour closet.

Everyone with a brain following the ghastly Eurocrat machinations in Brussels was aware of the main plot - yet hardly anyone among average EU citizens. Habeck, Chancellor "Liver Sausage" Scholz, the European Commission (EC) Green Energy VP Timmermans, EC dominatrix Ursula von der Leyen, they are all involved.

In a nutshell: as Engdahl describes it, this is about "the EU plan to de-industrialize one of the most energy-efficient industrial concentrations on the planet."

That's a practical translation of the UN Green Agenda 2030 - which happens to be metastasized into crypto Bond villain Klaus Schwab's Great Reset - now renamed "Great Narrative".

The whole scam started way back in the early 2000s: I remember it vividly, as Brussels used to be my European base in the early "war on terror" years.

At the time, the talk of the town was the "European energy policy". The dirty secret of such policy is that the EC, " advised" by JP MorganChase as well as the usual mega speculative hedge funds, went all out into what Engdahl describes as "a complete deregulation of the European market for natural gas."

That was sold to the Lugenpresse ("lying media") as "liberalization". In practice, that's savage, unregulated casino capitalism, with the "free" market fixing prices while dumping long-term contracts - such as the ones struck with Gazprom.
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Deceiving West and 'detached' elites: Highlights of Putin's speech at Eastern Economic Forum


RT
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 18:36 UTC
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President Vladimir Putin delivered a lengthy speech at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East.

Among other things, he commented on the unfolding crisis in the global economy, which he attributed to the shortsightedness of Western elites. According to Putin, they are trying to cling to global power while it slips from their hands.

Here are some of the key points Putin made in his address.

Western dominance is dwindling

The world is facing serious economic challenges, and unlike the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the current turmoil is the result of conscious decisions made by Western nations, Putin said. The West caught "sanctions fever" as it sought to impose its will on other nations.

According to the president, though this is nothing new, the current situation is marked by special circumstances - the US is losing its dominance in the global economy and politics, a "tectonic shift" that Western elites are not willing to acknowledge.
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Best of the Web: Putin: Almost all of Ukraine's grain goes to EU countries instead of African countries in need of food

Elena Teslova
Anadolu Agency
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 18:33 UTC
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that almost all Ukraine's grain was transported to the EU countries.

Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Wednesday, Putin warned that an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe may arise in the world because the West exports most of the Ukrainian grain to its countries, and not to the countries in need in Africa.

"All, almost all grain exported from Ukraine is sent not to the developing poorest countries, but to the EU countries.

"Under the UN World Food Program, which implies assistance to countries in need, only two ships were loaded, I emphasize, only two out of 87, and 60,000 tons of food were exported on them of the 2 million tons, this is only 3% that is sent to developing countries," the president said.
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'Whitewashed' IDF probe finds 'high probability' soldier accidentally killed Shireen Abu Akleh

Emanuel Fabian
The Times of Israel
Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:25 UTC
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© Ahmad Gharabli/AFPBanners depicting slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
The military on Monday said there was a "high probability" an Israeli soldier accidentally killed veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh nearly four months ago, based on its investigation into the incident.

The 51-year-old Palestinian-American journalist, who was wearing a vest marked "Press" and a helmet, was killed during clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen while covering an Israeli military operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on May 11.

The Israel Defense Forces initially blamed Palestinian gunmen for the shooting, but later acknowledged that Abu Akleh could also have been killed by Israeli soldiers.

On Monday, a military official told reporters that a soldier had been identified who had "with very high likelihood" shot the journalist by mistake.

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Labor Day Assessment

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Dan Kitwood/Getty Images EuropeGoing out of business as bills rise 150%
There will be a Great Re-set, of course, but it's not exactly the one that Western Civ is blabbering about — a mere shuffling of political and financial protocols. It's happening with or without "Joe Biden," the EU, and der Hoch Schwabenklaus, though the aggregate stupidity they represent is surely making the entry process worse. The Great Re-set is what happens when the business model goes bust for powering the world with oil and other fossil fuels — even if there is quite a bit of all that stuff left in the ground. Years ago, I called it The Long Emergency.

Everything emanates off of that, including the astonishing bouts of mischief made in attempts to work around it, assign the blame for it, grub money off it, and shift the effects of it from one group of people or one region of the world to another. Steve St. Angelo says it neatly: "Energy drives the economy; finance steers it." That's so. When the oil business model broke in 2008, industrial society lost its mojo and, after that, finance steered it into a ditch.

The Great Re-Set is an emergent phenomenon. It unspools naturally out of circumstances that reality presents. It goes its own way and we have to adapt to it, like it or not. Is our climate changing? Maybe. But so what? The climate has changed many times since the Bronze Age. If preventing that is actually out of the question, which it is, then what else are you going to do? The answer is: adapt intelligently to new conditions. When you clear away all the mental resistance to that — which amounts to a titanic struggle to keep things just the way they are — you're going to have to make changes anyway.

Comment: The pendulum always swings back.

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Why the US is becoming more brazen with its Ukraine support

Ellen Mitchell
The Hill
Sat, 03 Sep 2022 07:24 UTC
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© Roland Balik/USAFPentagon military aid to Ukraine palletized ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine
The Biden administration is arming Ukraine with weapons that can do serious damage to Russian forces, and, unlike early in the war, U.S. officials don't appear worried about Moscow's reaction.

In the past several months, Washington has detailed tranches of new drones, harder-hitting missiles and deadly rocket systems as part of billions of dollars pledged to the former Soviet country. The clear support is a far cry from the early days of the war, when the U.S. government seemed hesitant to list exactly what was being sent into Ukraine so as not to tip off or draw the ire of Moscow.

But that's changed thanks to 'a struggling Kremlin' that has failed to follow through with its threats.


Comment: The Kremlin follows through with its promises. The US follows through with its threats.


Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor told The Hill:
"Over time, the administration has recognized that they can provide larger, more capable, longer-distance, heavier weapons to the Ukrainians and the Russians have not reacted.

"The Russians have kind of bluffed and blustered, but they haven't been provoked. And there was concern [over this] in the administration early on — there still is to some degree — but the fear of provoking the Russians has gone down."
Taylor is now with the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Comment: The US is selling itself a narrative to attain justification. Both aspects are delusional.

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Moscow accuses West of breaking 'grain deal' pledge


RT
Tue, 06 Sep 2022 16:18 UTC
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© RIA/Russian Foreign MinistryRussian FM Sergey Lavrov
Western countries have not fulfilled their promise to lift sanctions on Russian grain and fertilizers to allow them to reach world markets, the country's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, explained on Tuesday.

The commitment was part of a deal brokered by the UN and Turkey and signed in Istanbul in July to unblock Ukraine's grain exports and ease a looming global food crisis.

Lavrov stressed that "artificially inflated" Western claims that Russian actions in Ukraine had undermined the stability of the global food market are "absolutely not the case."

In a joint press conference with his Thai counterpart, Don Pramudwinai, Lavorv said:
"On the contrary, our Western colleagues are not doing what we were promised by the UN secretary general, namely, they are not making a decision to remove logistical sanctions that prevent free access of Russian grain and fertilizers to world markets."
Lavrov added that Russia continues to work with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his team to ensure the organization fulfills its obligations under the Istanbul agreements.
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Huh? Biden screams that he "beat pharma this year"

Steve Watson
Summit News
Tue, 06 Sep 2022 17:00 UTC
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It took less than one year for Joe Biden to go from "Pandemic of the unvaccinated" to "we beat pharma this year."

During a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee Monday, Joe Biden screamed that he "beat pharma this year" despite the fact that he provided billions in record profits for the pharmaceutical industry by attempting to enforce vaccine mandates.

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How the US lost Russia—and how we can restore relations

William J. Perry
Outrider
Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:01 UTC
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Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry looks back at our relationship with Russia and charts a way forward for peace.

The hostility between the United States and Russia has reached heights not seen since the dark days of the Cold War. How have we found ourselves back here?

Former After the fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the Russian Federation in the early 90s, our two nations began working together towards building a cooperative alliance. Today, it feels as if that era of positive dialogue has been forgotten. Yet as we look at the terrible events unfolding with Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, it is worth trying to understand how we found ourselves so far from those heady early days; not just to manage the current situation but also in the hopes that we can restore the relationship to something beyond open antagonism.

Comment: This is a pretty white-washed perspective, but what can one expect from a former US Defense Secretary. It glosses over entirely the aggressive actions by NATO against Russia for decades. Putin was never an 'enemy' of the West until NATO pushed him there. It's too late to call foul.

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Putin approves new foreign policy doctrine based on 'Russian World'


Reuters
Mon, 05 Sep 2022 20:53 UTC
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© Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via REUTERSRussian President Vladimir Putin visits a falcon breeding centre in Kamchatka

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with ornithologists and members of the Kamchatka falcon breeding centre in the region of Kamchatka, Russia, September 5, 2022.
President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved a new foreign policy doctrine based around the concept of a "Russian World", a notion that conservative ideologues have used to justify intervention abroad in support of Russian-speakers.

The 31-page "humanitarian policy", published more than six months into the war in Ukraine, says Russia should "protect, safeguard and advance the traditions and ideals of the Russian World".

While presented as a kind of soft power strategy, it enshrines in official policy ideas around Russian politics and religion that some hardliners have used to justify Moscow's occupation of parts of Ukraine and support for breakaway pro-Russian entities in the east of the country.

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