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Natural gas prices plunge as Putin says Russia will boost supplies to Europe


RT
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:30 UTC
gas pipeline
© AP / Pavlo Palamarchuk
The price of gas futures in Europe has plunged nearly 22%, below $1,000 per 1,000 cubic meters, on news that Russia is willing to ramp up supplies to the continent. Gas prices nearly reached $2,000 a day earlier.

According to trading data from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the price of November gas futures on the Dutch TTF index started trading at almost $1,260 per thousand cubic meters on Thursday, then briefly jumped to $1,370 at 6:13am GMT and later showed a steady decline. By 8am GMT, the price fell to $973 per thousand cubic meters, which is 22% lower than its closing price the day before. On Wednesday, the price of gas in Europe briefly reached a historic high of $1,937 per thousand cubic meters, nearly three times its cost in September.

Gas futures started their decline late Wednesday when Russian President Vladimir Putin said the country would boost supplies to Europe.

Comment: Leaders in the EU & Britain should be breathing a sigh of relief as Russia, yet again, comes to the rescue; and citizens should be pressing them to reconsider their relationship with the US because, at the last minute, it made another attempt to sabotage their access to an affordable and desperately needed source of gas by slapping sanctions on companies necessary for the pipelines completion: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Bullseye

Russia is fulfilling ALL its contractual obligations for gas orders & is NOT to blame for soaring prices - Merkel

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:11 UTC
Merkel
© AFP / HENDRIK SCHMIDT
(L) The double shut-off valves are installed between the pipe systems of the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream Baltic Sea pipeline. Getty Images / Jens Büttner; (R) German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected suggestions that the increased price of gas is due to Russian policy, and is instead pointing the finger at European Union policy, asking whether the bloc could have acted differently.

Speaking on Wednesday, Merkel noted that Russia has never refused to deliver gas and has fulfilled its contractual obligations.

"That's why we should ask the question: was enough gas ordered, or is the high price at the moment maybe the reason for not ordering so much?" Merkel asked, according to London's Financial Times.

Comment: Britain and the EU have the gamut of excuses, including blaming Russia, and a lack of employees in numerous sectors, but citizens only have so much patience, and it's bound to wear rather thin when people are cold, and hungry:

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Pirates

Dutch court dismisses call to scrap 'corona pass' mandate


Reuters
Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:37 UTC
Rutte
© REUTERS/ Matthias Rietschel
Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaks during the gala event after the opening ceremony of the exhibition "Johannes Vermeer. Vom Innehalten" in Dresden, Germany, September 9, 2021.
A Dutch court on Wednesday dismissed a call to scrap the 'corona pass' required to enter restaurants, bars, museums, theatres and other public places in the Netherlands.

The court in The Hague said the government had the right to demand proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or a recent negative coronavirus test to limit the spread of the coronavirus as most other social distancing measures were lifted last month.

Comment: Notably, the Dutch political situation this year has been marred by scandal: "Unprecedented injustice": Dutch government quits over tax subsidy scandal

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Black Cat

'Whistleblower' Haugen was part of Facebook team that spiked Hunter Biden laptop story

Nick Monroe
The Post Millennial
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 17:12 UTC
Haugen
© Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Images
Facebook 'whistleblower' Frances Haugen hearing
The civic integrity department in October 2020 had Frances Haugen — a left-leaning activist who declared her own war against "misinformation."

The Facebook civic integrity team that leftist activist whistleblower Frances Haugen was a member of, worked to counter misinformation about the 2020 election.

Which in October of last year meant making the decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story and the New York Post's reporting on it.

Project Veritas whistleblowers haven't gotten the same mainstream media attention and praise as Frances Haugen has, after coming out publicly to 60 Minutes earlier this week.

Comment: Conservative podcaster Dan Bongino makes an interesting observation on Haugen's testimony (includes ads):



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Cult

The elites' battle for the Future America

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:41 UTC
Elites at a Hampton party
No nation can produce less of lesser quality, and squander more on infinitely greedy and corrupt elites, all funded by issuing trillions of new units of currency, and imagine that this asymmetry will never have consequences.

As I have often noted, historian Michael Grant identified profound political disunity in the ruling class as a key cause of the dissolution of the Roman Empire. Grant described this dynamic in his excellent account The Fall of the Roman Empire, a book I have been recommending since 2009.

I've been writing about the fractures in America's ruling elites for many years, as well as the erosion of the foundations of society that lead to systemic collapse, for example, Collapse, Part 2: The Nine Dynamics of Decay (June 2015), Going to War with the Political Elite You Have (May 14, 2007) and The Conflict within the Deep State Just Broke into Open Warfare (March 10, 2017)
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Eye 1

Bringing Facebook to heel: A system-connected 'whistleblower' and a 'for the children' narrative mask a bid for political control

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:48 UTC
facebook cracked glass
© Reuters / Dado Ruvic
Politicians always couch power grabs in talk of safety or protecting children. If something looks too good to be true, that's because it is. Both of those truisms apply to the case of Facebook 'whistleblower' Frances Haugen.

Haugen came seemingly out of nowhere to testify before the Senate on Tuesday, yet she revealed nothing besides well-rehearsed bromides about the Menlo Park behemoth putting "profits over people" and somehow endangering Our Democracy by refusing to police misinformation, or something. Stunning and brave!

She also landed a 60 Minutes interview over the weekend, got instantly verified on Twitter, and received praise from the extremely online Democrats (aka the 'Resistance' during the Trump era) for her stunning bravery. Her advice to the Senate wasn't to break up Facebook, either, but to turn it into an arm of the government - for the "common good," of course, and to protect the children.

Comment: Folks aren't buying it





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Brick Wall

COVID-19 detention camps: Are government round-ups of resistors in our future?

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
covid camps
It's no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when.

This is what we know: the government has the means, the muscle and the motivation to detain individuals who resist its orders and do not comply with its mandates in a vast array of prisons, detention centers, and FEMA concentration camps paid for with taxpayer dollars.

It's just a matter of time.

It no longer matters what the hot-button issue might be (vaccine mandates, immigration, gun rights, abortion, same-sex marriage, healthcare, criticizing the government, protesting election results, etc.) or which party is wielding its power like a hammer.

The groundwork has already been laid.

Under the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the President and the military can detain and imprison American citizens with no access to friends, family or the courts if the government believes them to be a terrorist.

So it should come as no surprise that merely criticizing the government or objecting to a COVID-19 vaccine could get you labeled as a terrorist.
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Top Secret

CIA airlifted thousands of Afghan commandos accused of war crimes and serious abuses out of country during withdrawal - reports


RT
Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:21 UTC
taliban troops
© AFP / Aamir Qureshi
Before the Taliban takeover in August, the CIA reportedly evacuated thousands of Afghan commandos belonging to its shadowy Zero units. These outfits conducted deadly night raids and have been accused of committing "war crimes."

The agency flew out more than 20,000 "Afghan partners" and their families, according to two unnamed former officers cited in a recent Washington Post editorial. The US is thought to have gotten between 60,000 and 120,000 Afghans out of the country.

The airlift of as many as 7,000 Zero unit members and their relatives was an agency priority, The Intercept reported. An unidentified former senior US intelligence official told the investigative news outlet that most of the commandos were flown to Qatar, where CIA officers helped get them sent to the US.
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Star of David

The Amen Corner Strikes Again

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
AIPAC meeting
Once upon a time the Israel Lobby destroyed critics of the Jewish state and its behavior by stealth. If a Congressman or Senator were speaking honestly about the lopsided relationship with Israel which required suppressing, it was done by making sure that individual was not reelected. This was normally accomplished by vetting an attractive opposition primary candidate who would do Israel's bidding, funding him or her generously and providing unfavorable press coverage of the incumbent.

One great victory for Israel using that technique was the 1992 defeat of George H. W. Bush by Bill Clinton. Bush had dared to withhold guarantees on loans sought to fund Israel's expansion of its settlements, clearly a genuine American interest as the settlements were a violation of international law. Going into the election, he appeared to be the much stronger candidate, but then the captive media starting to write about how the economy was in bad shape, which was not true, and switched over to deeply negative coverage of his campaign. The Lobby also heavily contributed financially to the Clinton campaign. George H.W. subsequently privately blamed the Israel Lobby for his defeat, a lesson his son George W. clearly absorbed in that he took pains to never anger Israel. He went rather the other way, surrounding himself with Jewish neocons as his national security policy team, which in turn produced Afghanistan and, quite plausibly, was the driving force behind the catastrophic attack on Iraq.
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Bad Guys

NATO to expel eight Russian diplomats, allegedly over claims of 'undisclosed killings & espionage' at military bloc's Brussel headquarters


RT
Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:06 UTC
NATO
© Sean Gallup / Getty Images
Officials from NATO have reportedly decided to slash the size of the permanent Russian delegation working to build ties with the US-led military bloc at its headquarters in Brussels, revoking the credentials of eight envoys.

Writing on Twitter on Wednesday, Sky News security editor Deborah Haynes wrote that "NATO has decided to halve the size of Russia's mission to the alliance."

According to Haynes, the move is "in response to suspected malign Russian activities, including killings & espionage."

Comment: Unsurprisingly these allegations aren't presented with any supporting facts. That's because it's likely that there aren't any - at least none that wouldn't also apply to Western diplomats. Since Russia has made it clear that it doesn't take too kindly to the breaching of diplomatic protocol, and particularly because in this instance these are serious criminal accusations, it's likely that there will be an interesting response from Moscow.

It's notable that such allegations would appear as the situation on the globe heats up with protests raging against vaccine mandates, lockdowns, with whistleblowers and undercover investigations revealing these crimes against humanity by governments and industry, in addition to the looming shortages of all kinds - including energy, products and food - that threaten to throw the lives of billions into unimaginable turmoil: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Climate Disaster Plans and Vaccine War Games: Government to the Rescue!



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