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Bill Gates on energy crisis: 'It's good for the long run'

Ben Zeisloft
The Daily Wire
Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Gates
© Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty ImagesBill Gates
Bill Gates said on Tuesday that the energy crisis stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine will be "good for the long run" as nations pivot toward renewable energy solutions.

The billionaire and Microsoft co-founder explained during an interview with CNBC that although global economies cannot immediately discard oil and gas, current shortages in the European energy market will prompt a faster transition away from fossil fuels.
"Now, without the Russian natural gas being available in Europe, it's a setback. We need to find non-Russian hydrocarbon sources to substitute for those. Keeping those economies in decent shape is a priority. Now on the other hand, it's good for the long run, because people won't want to be dependent on Russian natural gas, so they'll move to these new approaches more rapidly."
Natural gas shipments from Russia, which had already paused exports to Germany through Nord Stream 1 before the pipeline system witnessed massive damage, provided 40% of the continent's natural gas supply last year. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen acknowledged that low hydropower generation, which emerged from low river capacity, is partially responsible for soaring energy prices, although she said the "effects of climate change" were responsible for the low water levels.


Comment: Someone should inform her how many locations around the globe are currently in flood crisis.


Comment: A stupendous argument based on lies and fiction to hammer home Gates' message.

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Berlusconi trashes NATO narrative on Ukraine - media


RT
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:32 UTC
Berlusconi
© Massimo Di Vita/Archivio Massimo Di Vita/Mondadori Portfolio/Getty ImagesSilvio Berlusconi • Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati
First session of the new Italian Parliament • October 13, 2022
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has reportedly claimed that Kiev triggered a conflict with Russia by reneging on a peace plan for eastern Ukraine, a tape provided to the media suggests. In an apparent response to the leak, Giorgia Meloni, who has been tasked with forming a new Italian government, stated that people who do not share a pro-NATO stance would have no place in her coalition.

Speaking to members of his Forza Italia party on Tuesday, Berlusconi reportedly offered a viewpoint about the origin of the Ukraine crisis that clashed with the NATO-favored narrative of unprovoked Russian aggression against its neighbor.

Italy is an important member of the US-led alliance and anyone who disagrees with this position will be excluded from government, Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of Italy party, pledged on Wednesday evening, as quoted by the newspaper La Repubblica.
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Bad Guys

Ukraine war is 'Biden's war' now

M. K. Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
military convoy Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Oct 18, 2022 that evidence of military personnel of United States and other Western countries having their boots on the ground in Ukraine is mounting.

The most obvious explanation to the mysterious air dash of the UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace to Washington on Tuesday could be that he was canvassing for the support of the Biden Administration for his pitch to succeed Liz Truss as Britain's next prime minister. But another plausible explanation can be that the secret, hurried trip marked a defining moment in the conflict in Ukraine, which is showing all signs of turning into a full-fledged war.

To be sure, the Biden team cannot but be worried that London is drifting into chaos and the Conservative Party's faction leaders scurry around like headless chicken looking for a substitute to Truss who stepped down on Thursday.

The British economy is disintegrating and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt anticipates that a cut on the defence budget is inevitable. That is to say, the Deep State's fun and frolic in Kiev is no longer affordable. The UK is heading for hard times, the rubric of Global Britain looks delusional.
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The wasteland of British politics

M. K. Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Mary Elizabeth Truss, currently UK’s prime minister
Mary Elizabeth Truss, currently UK’s prime minister
When an ugly power play marks the end of the career of a phenomenally successful politician, it presents a painful sight. From all accounts in the British press in the most recent weeks, it was clear that the night of the long knives was approaching for the most photogenic prime minister Great Britain and Northern Ireland ever produced — Liz Truss.

Enoch Powell, if I remember correctly, once said that the tragedy of most politicians is that they do not know when to quit public life before the sun starts descending westward on their career. Indeed, Truss invited upon herself such an ignominious end to her stunning political career.

For, she should have known that in life, it's more important to be aware of one's weaknesses than strengths. But she was fired up by an overvaulting ambition to slip into the shoes of Margaret Thatcher, while it was crystal clear to anyone who watched her controversial visit to Moscow in February that Truss was perilously close to being exposed as an incompetent politician. Come to think of it, she eagerly sought an invitation from Moscow keenly seeking media headlines as a tough-talking diplomat even as the storms were gathering over Ukraine.

Comment: Liz Truss is now gone - having been ousted by those who've decided she just isn't authoritarian or globalist enough to run the UK...
It's "a shambles and a disgrace..."


Jeremy Hunt, the new 'de facto Prime Minister', is a 'Zero-COVID' loon who lobbied for children to be taken from their parents and put in quarantine camps.

As Nigel Farage noted, Hunt is the face of a globalist coup...
"This is a coup, the Conservative Party is dead."
Nigel Farage is furious...
"We're viewed as a complete laughing stock. There's now no point to the Tory party at all. It serves no purpose. Not only is it going to lose the next election. I say it needs to be replaced."

Good luck, UK!

Paul Joseph Watson attempts to explain the 'utter clusterfuck' we have seen in the UK in the last few weeks in his indomitable manner...



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Life Preserver

Europe and the US go Thelma and Louise

Larry Johnson
Sonar 21
Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:24 UTC
Sorry to burden you with film references, but this iconic scene from Thelma and Louise seems to capture the current zeitgeist infecting Europe and the United States:


I will leave it to you to decide if Europe is Thelma or Louise. In either case, this is a suicide pact that the United States and Europe are jointly executing without taking time to think about the ultimate consequences of their current actions.

Both the United States and Europe have expressed openly their goal of getting rid of Vladimir Putin. Putin, in their juvenile world, is the source of all suffering and all evil. Quite a powerful guy according to Western mythology. Yet-irony alert-it is the leaders in the West that are being toppled. Joe Biden's party is facing a massive rebuke in the upcoming November election. Italy gave the Prime Minister reins to an outspoken Conservative-a clear rejection of the traditional political hacks that had been in charge in Italy. And the United Kingdom is in the grips of a record setting meltdown of its political order. For the first time since Parliament came into being (we're talking three hundred years), the Prime Minister was forced to resign after 40 days in office. While the Tories are trying to paint lipstick on this pig of a situation and call it Marilyn Monroe, it is a total clown show. The UK will continue to give lip service to backing Ukraine, but the economic reality will dictate either cutting back support in order to maintain the readiness of the British military or gutting the British military in favor of arming Ukraine. The UK cannot do both.


Comment: Just like a business without competent leaders is doomed to fail, so it is with Western countries, whose leaders are anything but competent.


Comment: The wishful thinking of the Western elite is blinding them to what is likely to happen. Reality wins every time over wishful thinking just like the truth wins over lies.

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Magnet

Russia and China should build a joint semiconductor industry

Timur Fomenko
RT
Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:19 UTC
microchip, semiconductor, cpu
© Getty Images / mailsonpignata / 500px
The United States has recently imposed some of the toughest semiconductor-related sanctions it has ever imposed on China. Using the "foreign direct product rule", which prohibits the use of American origin technology to the sanctioned party, even for third party countries, the White House has banned China's entire semiconductor industry from utilizing US-led chipmaking equipment, in a bid to slow down its rise in chip technology. It is the same move the US used against Huawei two years ago, but on a larger scale, and demonstrates President Joe Biden's willingness to double down on confrontation with Beijing, forcing it to pursue a path of self-reliance in semiconductors.

The foreign policy of the United States involves actively destroying globalization in a bid to shore up American unilateral dominance and undermine competitor states. Although the US once believed that globalization served American goals and interests, the story of US policy since Donald Trump became president has been that the mutual integration of US allies and rivals, through trade and investment, is bad and contrary to American interests. Therefore, the United States strives to engineer global political confrontation in order to maintain its critical strategic advantages and divide the world into respective blocs again, so it can legitimize its position through ideology.

Comment: An empire in seeking to maintain its power and position inevitably and simultaneously sows the seeds of its own destruction.

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War Whore

Top Ukrainian official 'shocked' by US aid comments


RT
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 06:57 UTC
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
© AFP / Win McNameeHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) answers questions during a press conference at the US Capitol .
The head of Vladimir Zelensky's party in parliament reacts to the prospect of a support cut if Republicans win the midterm elections.

A claim by House minority leader Kevin McCarthy that Republicans could curb US support for Ukraine if they win the midterm elections on November 8 has caught Kiev by surprise, David Arakhamia, who heads President Vladimir Zelensky's party in parliament, has revealed.

Earlier this week, McCarthy said that while still being "important," helping Ukraine in its conflict against Russia couldn't remain the dominating issue on the agenda in Washington anymore. "I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they're not going to write a blank check to Ukraine. They just won't do it," he told Punchbowl News. According to a report by Axios on Wednesday, such a sentiment is shared by many other GOP lawmakers.

Comment: See also:

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Broom

Madagascar fires its foreign minister over vote against Russia at the UN


RT
Wed, 19 Oct 2022 18:46 UTC
Richard Randriamandrato
Richard Randriamandrato, then foreign minister of Madagascar
Madagascar's President Andriy Rajoelina has fired his foreign minister, Richard Randriamandrato, for a vote against Russia at the UN, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two unidentified officials.

The country voted along with 142 other nations to condemn Moscow for the "illegal annexation" of former Ukrainian regions during a vote at the UN General Assembly last week. Madagascar had previously abstained from voting on UN resolutions related to the Ukraine crisis as Rajoelina chose to maintain neutrality and non-alignment on the conflict.

Comment: Clearly the FM wasn't speaking on behalf of his country and has been rightfully removed.

See also: Saudi prince releases video warning that kingdom will respond to 'challenges' with jihad after Biden threatens them for working with Russia

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Wolf

France's Macron to impose 2023 budget without parliamentary vote amid strikes and growing protests

Anthony Torres, Alex Lantier
World Socialist Website
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:04 UTC
macron
With refinery workers striking in France against inflation and the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine escalating, President Emmanuel Macron moved yesterday to ram his 2023 budget through the National Assembly without a vote. After the May 2022 elections, Macron's Renaissance party has only a minority in the Assembly, and its budget was doomed to go down to defeat in a vote.

Ultimately, the Macron government decided yesterday to force approval of the revenues portion of its budget bill, using the French constitution's anti-democratic Article 49-3. This article allows the government to force the Assembly to adopt the budget without a vote, unless it adopts a motion of censure to bring down the government. The government is set to invoke this article again before the end of the week on the financing of Social Security — and, potentially, up to seven times before the budget is adopted.

Comment: Some footage of the recent protests and strikes in France:



Translation:
the Maurice Ravel high school is partially blocked. High school students are protesting against the ParcourSup, Bac, police repression, 49-3, climate inaction reforms...




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Putin

Russia will review ties with UN if Secretariat violates mandate with probe into drone sales


TASS
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 02:40 UTC
russia drone
FILE PHOTO: Mayor Klitschko shared a photo of what he said were fragments of a kamikaze drone on Telegram
On the role of the UN Secretariat: it has no mandate to investigate anything regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 2231, Dmitry Polyansky said Russia will re-assess its relations with the UN Secretariat and the secretary-general if they participate in a probe, launched in connection with claims of Iranian drone supplies to Russia, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky told reporters.

"On the role of the UN Secretariat: it has no mandate to investigate anything regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 2231," Polyansky said after closed UN Security Council consultations on Iran's alleged drone deliveries to Russia

"We hope that the Secretariat and the secretary-general himself will not again violate the decisions of the UN Security Council, and will not go beyond their technical mandate, and will abstain from engaging in any illegitimate investigation. Otherwise, we will have to reassess our collaboration with them, which is hardly in anyone's interests. We do not want to do it, but there will be no other choice," he added.
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