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NATO member Bulgaria think Ukraine should not be allowed to join until conflict is over

Rumen Radev
© Hristo Rusev/Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: The President of Bulgaria, Rumen Radev. Bulgaria's head of state Rumen Radev says accession to the bloc can only happen after Kiev and Moscow strike a peace deal
NATO should not welcome Ukraine into its ranks until the armed conflict between Kiev and Moscow has been resolved, Bulgaria's president has argued. Rumen Radev's comments run counter to a joint communique adopted earlier by the leaders of several eastern and central European countries.

In a statement published by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency on Monday, Radev's office said the president felt compelled to clarify why he had not signed off on the pro-Ukraine declaration.

According to the Bulgarian head of state, the "security environment" has changed dramatically since 2008, when Bulgaria joined a declaration on Ukraine's future accession at the summit in Bucharest. The reality on the ground now dictates that Ukraine's "membership in the Alliance be discussed within the full composition of the North Atlantic Council," the president said.

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Developing developments

Blink/Pipe
© Shutterstock/KJNSecretary of State Antony Blinken • Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Message found in fortune cookie from Panda Take-out reminds us: "The dildo of consequence is seldom lubricated." Please apply this ancient wisdom to "Joe Biden's" sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natgas pipelines. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spun the deed as a "tremendous opportunity" to reduce fuel use in Euroland, and shift its prior dependence on affordable Russian energy to ruinously-priced American liquid natural gas (LNG) — a supposed boon to US producers. Lucky us and them!

Let's get a few technical matters straight about natgas. Gas pipelines allow for cheap gas, without costly intervening shipping procedures. Flows are continuous from producer to customer. LNG requires compression of the gas at super-cold temperatures and costly-to-build LNG tanker ships to keep that gas cold and compressed in transit. Each tanker can carry only so-much gas and the flow is not continuous. At each end of the energy-losing journey there is a costly LNG terminal to load and unload the gas. Bottom line: Euroland customers can't afford US LNG, though for now they'll be getting it good and hard to struggle through the first winter of a permanent depression that will feel more like the forecourt of a new dark age. Also bear in mind that American shale gas is a finite resource; that we need plenty of it ourselves; and that the earliest-developed US shale gas fields are crapping out one-by-one.

Secretary Blinken pretends that Europe's deadly predicament will segue crisply into a new "green renewable" disposition of things as well as a stable-and-balanced new cold war between US-led NATO and Russia, like the 1950s. Secretary Blinken is, of course, completely insane. Germany's industry will now collapse, the Euro currency will collapse with it, and the exchange rate with the dollars Euroland needs to buy in order to purchase US LNG will bankrupt them further. It will also probably blow up the European Union, which is chiefly a trade scaffold. With industrial production sinking, trade sinks too, and the flimsy cooperative arrangements between nations turn into a desperate competition as each nation of Euroland struggles to stay alive.

Rocket

North Korea fires missile over Japan

screen launch
© AP/Lee Jin-manNorth Korean missile launch
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time since 2017, officials in Tokyo have claimed. The reported incident follows a flurry of similar launches in recent months.

Japanese and South Korean officials confirmed the launch on Tuesday morning, saying the projectile was fired from North Korea's Chagang Province and flew over a portion of Aomori Prefecture in Japan's north.

Prime Minister Fumio Kashida's office said in a statement:
"A short while ago, North Korea launched a ballistic missile that flew over Japan and is believed to have landed in the Pacific Ocean. This is an outrageous act following the recent repeated ballistic missile launches, and I strongly condemn it."
The PM's office later confirmed that the missile landed in the sea outside Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone, and went on to accuse North Korea of violating United Nations resolutions with its 20 missile tests so far in 2022 - the largest number since leader Kim Jong-un took power in 2011.

Stop

US lawmakers call for sanctions against Algeria

Algeria tanks
© AAAlgerian tanks on parade
Twenty-seven members of Congress sent a letter addressed to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on 30 September calling for sanctions to be imposed against Algeria over its arms deals with Russia.

In the letter, the 27 US lawmakers, led by Republican Congresswoman Lisa McClain, showed concern over what they referred to as a growing relationship between Moscow and Algiers.

The arms agreements in question, which were signed last year, were reportedly worth around $7 billion and included the sale of Russia's Su-57 warplanes to Algeria, which Moscow has not provided to any other state. According to the concerns highlighted in the letter, the deal makes Algeria the third largest recipient of Russian weapons in the world.

The lawmakers have called for the sanctions to be imposed under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), passed by Congress in 2017.

Arrow Up

American energy bills are set to soar this winter

LNG terminal
© shorepower igusLiquified natural gas terminal
Domestic oil production remains nearly a million barrels per day (BPD) below the monthly record level set just before the Covid-19 pandemic caused production to plunge. The all-time monthly high for oil production took place in November 2019 at 13.0 million BPD. The all-time annual high was also in 2019, when U.S. production averaged 12.3 million BPD.

Current U.S. oil production is 12.1 million BPD, while the average for the year so far is 11.9 million BPD. That is on pace to be the second-highest ever annual U.S. oil production. Natural gas production experienced a similar plunge due to Covid, but production has bounced all the way back.

Monthly natural gas production hit an all-time high of 3.008 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in December 2019. Monthly production subsequently fell below 2.7 Tcf as the pandemic began to impact the markets, but production has steadily climbed back.

The previous natural gas production record in December 2019 was essentially tied in December 2021, but average monthly production this year has exceeded all other years. In fact, average 2021 monthly production of 2.85 Tcf beat the previous 2019 average monthly record of 2.82 Tcf. However, the monthly average through the first half of 2022 was even higher at 2.89 Tcf.

Comment: Bottom line: American households will pay the penalty for European LNG gas needs.


Eye 2

Best of the Web: The Nord Stream 2 pipeline sabotage - a possible scenario

Elements of the Nord Stream 2 sabotoge operation
Possible elements of the Nord Stream 2 sabotoge operation
As I sit here with my head on a swivel after the initial SITREP broadcast discussing the findings around this issue, I am thankful that the sea of "Monkey Nation" supporters run deep around the world and that we have so many "trackers" with the ability to do what I do that I know should something happen to me, there are tens of thousands that can continue on with this effort. As it is said, "give a man a fish feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, feed him for life." I have indeed taught so many enthusiasts around the world how to watch the skies over the past 2 years from YouTube that they could never stop the effort. Thank God for that. Plus, the tools to track just keep getting better and easier - e.g. SkyGlass.

Okay, let's dig into what we know about the subject. First and foremost, everything I have shown and discovered is open source - meaning it is available to anyone around the world. I just happen to know where to look and have the tools that give me the opportunity to find the data.

Comment: Pepe Escobar weighs in:




Oil Well

SOTT Focus: Escobar: Pipeline Terror is the 9/11 of the Raging Twenties

Twin Towers destruction
© Press TV
There's no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin's address on the Return of the Baby Bears - Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia - on September 30 as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties.

The underlying honesty and clarity mirror his speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference, but this time largely transcending the trappings of the geopolitical New Great Game.

This was an address to the collective Global South. In a key passage, Putin remarked how "the world has entered a period of revolutionary transformations, which are fundamental in nature. New development centers are being formed, they represent the majority."

As he made the direct connection between multipolarity and strengthening of sovereignty, he took it all the way to the emergence of a new anti-colonial movement, a turbocharged version of the Non-Aligned Movement of the 1960s:
"We have many like-minded people all over the world, including in Europe and the United States, and we feel and see their support. A liberating, anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony is already developing in various countries and societies. Its subjectivity will only grow. It is this force that will determine the future geopolitical reality."
Yet the speech's closure was all about transcendence - in a spiritual tone. The last full paragraph starts with "Behind these words stands a glorious spiritual choice".


Comment: Putin's full speech can be found here.


Comment: Many countries in the Global South have noticed that things are changing and where the wind is blowing: A multipolar world is emerging while the old hegemon is trying hopelessly to avoid the inevitable loss of its glorified status as exceptional.


Cult

UN representative gloats "we own the science" on climate change during World Economic Forum panel

WEF screenshot
UN Under Secretary General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming proudly gloats, "we own the science" on climate change during a World Economic Forum panel on "Tackling Disinformation". Fleming singles out as an example the relationship between Google & the UN that helps ensure resources favourable to the UN are shown at the top of search results for climate change instead of results the UN views as "distorted".

Comment: The world psychopathic elites don't even try to hide their intentions and their deeds anymore. They are publicly speaking that they control the media, the science and everything else and it looks like only a few people are concerned about that.

Of course that is for our own good. There are no nefarious intentions in that. Just dark and heavy words from the mouths of "conspiracy theorists" who were right about almost everything they spoke so far.

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Fear porn in Japan as N. Korea tests missile

The USG death machine has bases stretched across Japan.

North Korea Military
© Kurt Nimmo on Geopolitics
The idea, when dealing with renegade nations not part of the parasitical neolib crowd, is to make them out as intolerable threats, not only to their neighbors but all of humanity.

We witnessed the following charade earlier today:



Bullseye

The true purpose and the necessary stress test of the Russian army in real time

Russian defence staff
Evening, night and morning, which is more complicated, I was silent, thinking...

My head was full of questions, theories, answers and advice. But most importantly, I couldn't understand why it [the disagreement within the corridors of power in Russia with the way the Ministry of Defence is handling the military operation in Ukraine - SZ] went public?

I do not believe that Kadyrov and Prigozhin do not have a channel to communicate with Putin past Gerasimov. I do not believe that Putin does not have "his own people" in the Ministry of Defense who do not create a double- or triple- channel for informing about what is happening. Yes, a banal analysis of open sources makes it clear that not everything is glamorous in our "Emerald City" of khaki...

That is, it is nonsense that "public appeals" to the people are an attempt to break through the information blockade around the President. Then what is the goal? The goal is obvious - to prepare public opinion for certain upcoming events. 3 versions come to mind.....