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Sabotage of NS1 & NS2
This was an act of war, principally against Germany and carried out by their ‘allies’.
This is part of the continuing isolation of Europe. It started in earnest when Russia reclaimed Crimea. The EU was more than happy to harm EU industries and farmers by imposing sanctions. This year it has gone into overdrive and isolation from Russia is nearing completion.
The first shots have been fired to isolate the EU from China. The US has been trying hard to provoke China into invading Taiwan. If they are successful then they will demand the EU cease all trade with China, and it will! Iran is already in the bag.
This will leave Europe as an impoverished backwater and remove a commercial competitor to the US, along with Russia, China and others.
As a trading block is forming between Russia and China it is attracting other countries to join. The World could end up as the West and the rest!
Sabotage of NS1 & NS2
It was not a simple matter of dropping bombs off a ship. It would require knowing the precise locations of the pipelines so a survey of the seabed would be required. The pipelines would be in a trench so may require the trench being excavated to expose the pipelines to make any explosions effective. In short, it was a technical challenge which could have only been carried out by a few countries.
It would not have been done without the approval of the US, if not by the US itself
It will have been done by an ‘ally’ of Germany at the very least
There was an increasing chance that Germany would have becomes desperate enough to accept gas from NS2 which has now been stopped. Expect other pipelines to Germany to be blocked.
Germany is screwed for good. There is no recovery from this.
Who ya gonna vote for?
Most people vote AGAINST parties rather than FOR parties. People in Europe have seen their current leaders sacrifice them to support a failed policy against Russia [and Climate Change].
The main parties seem to be aligned so if you are worried about your life being destroyed for no good reason then you can only look to fringe parties who are willing to be different. In this case it is right wing parties.
While the pain to come has been widely advertised the real pain has yet to start.
I read that temperatures in Europe are set to plunge in two days time to 5 centigrade. [fridge!] In six months time who knows how desperate voters will be escape their hell.
“How this made it onto a NIH.GOV web site I’ll never know:”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/
Thanks for the reference – the best summary of the vaccine I have read. I have copied and saved the text because you never know how long it will be online!
Macron is a major reason for Russia’s incursion into Ukraine by not pushing the Minsk Agreement to establish autonomous regions in the Donbas.
He and Merkel are the key architects of the current conflict, along with the Ukraine government.
NO ONE ELSE.
There are numerous reports about how large parts of German and British industries will be shuttered. Economists forecast a drop in GDP in 2023 : 1% in Germany and 0.5% in the UK!!!!? My guesstimate would be 10% to 30%!
I regard countries as ‘black boxes’. What happens internally is not relevant, it is what happens at the boundary – the flow of goods, money and people. The export of goods is critical to generate cash to pay for imports.
I used to work in IT for an American stockbroker. Someone found out we were described as ‘non-productive personnel’! What they meant was that we did make money directly – we were an overhead. Industry, along with farmers, are important in producing goods for export and producing goods to reduce the amount of imports. This supports all the ‘non-productive personnel’ in the country and so could have a wider impact than people may think.
Another aspect is that a factory may produce components for other factories, which could again cause a wider impact.
Keynes suggested that building factories increased the number of people employed and increased the amount of wealth to buy other goods which meant more factories could be built, and so on. This will be Keynesian theory in fast reverse!
Who can the EU DEPEND on for supplies of gas? By its nature it can only be supplied in enough quantity by pipelines. Who can supply this gas reliably for decades. Any new pipelines would take years to build.
Russia has been an extremely reliable supplier of energy. There were no interruptions throughout the Cold War. The only interruption was gas when the Ukrainians started stealing it.
Even now, despite the freezing of hundreds of billions of Russian financial assets, infinite sanctions, plus supplying weapons to kill Russians, Russia is still prepared to continue energy supplies. However Europe is furious that Russia actually wants payment for it in a currency that is usable!
All the current attention is on NS1 – the West shut down 80% and Russia shut down 20%, so it is all Russia’s fault!!! I feel sure that Russia would supply gas via NS2, but the US will not allow that.
Russia is building a pipeline to send this gas to China so the supply of gas to the EU may become unavailable.
It will be interesting to see how many people die this winter, and what effect it will have on future elections.
If Hungary grabs a slice of Ukraine it would be useful if it connected to a Russian controlled area, giving it access to the outside world.
RENEWABLES
The UK spent 30 billion pounds on wind and solar which could produce as much energy as a 2 billion pound gas-fired power station!
BUT because this energy is random the gas-fired power station was still needed as backup.
AND it needed to be on ‘hot standby’ so could produce power quickly. This needed to use half the amount of gas required to produce full output.
What is worse is that most of that 30 billion was spent on fossil fuels – excavating raw materials, cement production, transport, refining, fabrication, construction. Even workers wages are spent on fossil fuel or its products like food or gadgets. Even then, wind turbines only last about 25 years, and often less, so it will all have to done again. The net result was a large increase in energy prices which left many in fuel poverty.
This ‘green’ initiative will have used far more fossil fuel than it saves. [Note that this dates from 6 years ago]
Unfortunately it is not unique. I want there to be some oil left for future generations and to see so much wasted on these pointless projects is depressing.
This Winter people in many countries will experience the result of Green policies! Perhaps people will realise that ‘Green’ means freezing and starving. Green policies can not be left to the fantasies of activists and politicians. Engineers, accountants and other rational people need to be involved to try and ensure that projects actually produce the desired result, a holistic approach.
It may also mean that there will be a revision of peoples’ attitudes to green policies. The right wing parties seem to have the majority of seats in Sweden after the current election. I am sure it won’t be the last. I feel it may not be the appeal of right-wing policies but may be the only way to escape the suffering of ‘green’ policies.
It is a shame how many public bodies which had credibility have been corrupted.
The IAEA, OPCW, UN, WHO, ICC at the Hague, UK justice system [Assange], FBI, CIA, DOJ, and many others.
And of course many other organisations : Olympic Committee, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Amnesty, Mainstream Media, scientific and medical bodies, etc.
Is there any body left who you would trust?
9/11
Not much about the 2 million people who died in the Middle East as a result of 9/11.
In the mid-nineties there was a film called ‘The long kiss goodnight’. The plot was that the CIA were planning to create a terror attack to kill thousands in what they termed a ‘fundraiser’.
9/11 seems like the same idea but was contracted out.
What makes me suspicious is that when four aircraft were hijacked at the same time there was so little reaction. No fighters were scrambled to shadow the aircraft.
When a hijacked aircraft hits a high profile target like the twin towers then it is obviously deliberate. The authorities had an hour to intercept the second aircraft using fighters, but they didn’t bother. The pentagon aircraft was even later but still was not intercepted. The fourth failed to reach its target [Whitehouse?] probably due to action by the passengers.
It is this inaction which makes me suspicious. Certainly it provided an excuse for punitive wars in the middle east and the setting up of a police state in the US.
CLOTS
I note that most of the studies such as the abnormal blood one are self-financed by the doctors themselves The recent study by doctors showing the blood clots were not actually composed of blood cells was also self-financed.
These novel blood clots have been known about for a while yet the above very basic studies would imply that there has not been a single investigation by health authorities into their cause and nature.
I have occasionally wondered how many of the elite have actually been vaccinated, either having saline injections or getting a fake vaccination record. It is so dangerous that I am sure will be ‘in the know’ and will protect themselves and their families.
It is odd that Ukrainian soldiers on the front line complain that they are using old guns with too little ammunition.
It makes you wonder what is happening with all the vast quantities of shiny new stuff!
The RT segment features Piers Corbyn. He is notable in that UK betting shops banned him for betting on the weather, usually a prediction about the coming winter!
There is a publication in the US called Old Farmers Almanac. It has collected data about the weather and possible influences for over 200 years and used it to create a sophisticated model for predicting weather for the year ahead. Apparently with about 80% accuracy.
There are at least 7 cycles which determine the climate. The longest is the Sun moving round the Milky Way, especially through the spiral arms. Next are the Milankovitch cycles (orbit, tilt, and ‘wobble’), length of cycles from 26,000 years to 100,000 years.
Shorter scale influences include the the moon, number of sunspots, and oceanic oscillations.
Piers Corbyn is one of the few to actually use science to predict long term weather rather than the ‘fortune teller’ approach : ‘Something bad will happen, but we can’t say what, where or when’. Eventually something bad WILL happen and they ‘Aha, told you’!
UK – Liz Truss
After BREXIT the UK needed to find new trading links with the world. Instead Liz Truss demonised Russia and sent warships to China. She is more interested in the UK being a US ‘mini-me’ rather than stimulating the UK economy.
She is also threatening to cause conflict with the EU over Northern Ireland/BREXIT, and She immediately declared support for Ukraine.
Here in the UK we are looking at :
– Double digit inflation [possibly 20% or more].
– 60% of factories may close due to energy costs.
– An even higher percentage of small businesses may close for the same reason.
– The value of the Pound is falling on an almost daily basis.
– There is talk that power cuts could last for two days or moreMost of this is to support the phony ‘war’ against Russia.
I dread to think what the UK will look like in 6 months time.
The Russian sanctions were intended to bring the Russian economy to its knees and have them begging Europe to buy their resources at any price they were willing to pay. It failed, and it is the European economies which are on their knees, with far worse to come.
Supplying Ukraine with weapons was supposed to bring the Russian military to its knees. It failed, and it is the European military that is running out of weapons and ammunition.
Europe is the bulk of NATO. Sometimes senior NATO personnel have spoken as is they run Europe, and perhaps they do. NATO is supposed to defend Europe, but Europeans are being told they must suffer [and die] in order to defend NATO!
At what point do Europeans realise that NATO’s artificial war with Russia is destroying their lives? When do they demand that their countries leave NATO so they can live a normal life?
It seems to me that the longer Russia fights in Ukraine then the weaker Europe/NATO becomes.
Jacques Baud : “..the exclusion of disabled athletes, cats, even Russian trees from competitions, the dismissal of conductors, the de-platforming of Russian artists, such as Dostoyevsky, or even the renaming of paintings..” .… and now visas.
I find this really disturbing as it reminds so much of the way Germany treated Jews in the 30s and 40s.
The punishment is not for what they did but for who they are.
It seems that all NATO countries, including the US, are claiming weapon and ammunition shortages due to supplying a small war in Europe!
Where did all the trillions go?
Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant
European ‘leaders’ stood by while Ukrainian forces shelled the plant in an effort to create another Chernobyl!!!!
It shows how little they actually care about Ukrainians, or even their own people.
Ukraine was just an excuse to destroy Russia, a plan which failed spectacularly. Germany has decided to literally ‘go for broke’!
I am sure that Russia is aware that the less gas they supply the weaker the EU becomes, i.e the weaker NATO becomes.
Europe may be returning to the 19th century.
Special home charging points for EVs in the UK are ‘smart devices’, which means they can be turned off remotely if there is not enough power. I would think that all public charging stations would have a similar setup.
It could be a shock to EV owners this winter as their cars turn into bricks!
At least it may focus minds on the fantasy of an EV future.
There is no science supporting the idea that CO2 levels influence global temperatures. The only science shows the reverse. Current CO2 levels reflect global temperatures from 600 years ago! The data comes from ice and sediment cores.
There was some correlation between CO2 levels and global warming from 1970 to 1998, but correlation is not causation. There may be more correlation NOW as activists began modifying the raw data collected from weather stations over the past 150 years. I think it was to ‘show’ a steeper rise in global temperatures during the 20th century.
There was a graph of historic global temperatures published in the National Geographic, I think in 1986. Today’s equivalent graph would be unrecognisable in comparison.
Increased CO2 levels are a good thing. CO2 is essential for plants and they grow far better with more CO2. The effect on plants is easy to demonstrate. Doubling the amount of CO2 shows a huge increase in plant size. This is a repeatable experiment. These huge Dutch style greenhouses often add CO2 to improve the plant growth.
The greenhouse effect can best be seen in hot deserts. Temperatures in the Sahara for example can fall 30 centigrade overnight, and even 40C, all the way down to freezing, in 12 hours, every night! Not the best greenhouse!
Finally : the ‘greenhouse effect’ in actual greenhouses was disproved in the 1950s. Two identical enclosures were built with one covered in glass and the other with rock crystal. The glass covered area was 0.1C warmer, so an almost non-existant ‘greenhouse effect’. Greenhouses work by creating a barrier to the outside environment.
I thought Spain has non-Russian supplies of gas and was talking about sending some to France, so why are they punishing their populace? Just to show solidarity?
It wasn’t necessary
– to spend trillions fighting global warming / climate change
– to build wind turbines and solar farms
– to close nuclear and coal fired plants
– to stop using Russian gas and oil
– to export CO2 production from the West to China
– to force the use of electric cars
– to use Covid ‘vaccines’
– to have lockdowns
– to destroy Vietnam, Serbia, Iraq, Syria and Libya
– to sanction Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba etc
– to destabilise Ukraine and TaiwanAll this is leading to massive damage to Europe, and possibly the US. Not sure about the rest of the world.
Electric Cars – Another Disaster In The Making
There are simply not enough of the metals needed to make the batteries in the amount needed. Hundreds of new mines will need to be developed.
This is just the first batteries – they only last 10-20 years. Replacing the batteries is a massive cost, assuming they are available.
Lithium batteries are difficult to recycle. They may end up in landfill!
The elephant in the room is the electricity supply. Many power grids are on the edge when it comes to supply and demand – they can not cope with the energy needs of tens or hundreds of millions of electric cars.
Trillions would need to be spent globally upgrading power grids – new power stations, upgrading transmission lines, upgrading transformers – all to cope with the massive increase in demand.
This will not be done. The same people who demand electric cars will also fight tooth and nail against new power stations! The costs would be overwhelming as well, and most of the costs would be spent on fossil fuels.
The end result will be that EVs will end up having the mobility of a brick. Many countries will end up like Cuba trying to keep ancient fossil fuelled vehicles running.
‘Man made climate change’ was invented when activists realised global temperatures were likely to go sideways until 2030. This is due to an interaction between the solar cycle and ocean oscillations. This gives 30 years of warming and then 30 years of cooling. The cooling phase started in 1998 offsetting the global warming caused as the Earth recovers from the horrific ‘Little Ice Age’.
[An ‘oscillation’ is when large areas of warm surface water sinks below the colder waters beneath! This can be for extended periods, for example for the Pacific Decadal Oscillation these layers swap places every ten years! Real climate science is weird!]
There is no science supporting the idea that CO2 levels influence global temperatures. The only science shows the reverse. Current CO2 levels reflect global temperatures from 600 years ago! The data comes from ice and sediment cores.
Increased CO2 levels are a good thing. CO2 is essential for plants and they grow far better with more CO2. These huge Dutch style greenhouses often add CO2 to improve the plant growth.
Climate change is unusual weather that has happened before. There was a kerfuffle when part of Siberia reached 100 Fahrenheit. This also happened in Gnome Alaska in 1915. We just don’t appreciate the effects of 24 hours/day of sunlight for weeks.
These beliefs are likened to a religion and often means that followers stop using their intelligence. We are in the ‘New Dark Age’.
For example there is concern that rising sea levels will swamp coral islands, BUT sea levels have risen hundreds of feet in the past 10,000 years so why do these places exist? And why do they all happen to be at sea level? The answer is that they are piles of sand which rise and fall with sea levels. Some parts may sink and other areas will appear above the sea. A survey some years ago found that land area had increased by 50%. They are not going to disappear!
To add insult : the ‘greenhouse effect’ in actual greenhouses was disproved in the 1950s. Two identical enclosures were built with one covered in glass and the other with rock crystal. The glass covered area was 0.1C warmer, so an almost non-existant ‘greenhouse effect’. Greenhouses work by creating a barrier to the outside environment.
I feel sorry for those who have been brainwashed into thinking they must sacrifice everything to ‘fight’ climate change. They will achieve nothing apart from making a few people very rich and wasting huge amounts of fossil fuel!
‘Green’ policies are a bit like Jenga. They don’t seem to cause problems, but then things fall apart!
[Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”]
The Gentle Genocide
If you want to reduce the population then reducing the number of babies born is a less noticeable way of doing it.
Several countries have recorded a significantly reduced birth rate so it seems to be quite effective.
There are reports that the mRNA vaccine becomes concentrated in the ovaries in women. The question is whether any effects are temporary or permanent.
There are so many genuine concerns about the vaccines being suppressed that I wonder whether it is just to boost the profits of a few companies or is it a genuine full-blown attempt at genocide?
In defense of Boris Johnson : He said Covid would be endemic and we have to live with it. He also removed all restrictions.
When I read about the draconian measures still being taken in the US, Germany, China and elsewhere I am thankful to him for that as I live in the UK. In this respect it is like living in a civilised country reading about the barbaric wasteland outside.
I still suspect it was because of this that he was removed by those in power. I hope the new leader will not re-impose this Covid barbarism.
FEVER
Before penicillin syphilis was sometimes cured by infecting the patient with malaria!
Syphilis could not survive the high temperature of malarial fever.
CO2 LOGIC ERROR!
While it is true that human activity accounts for only 4% of annual production of CO2 I made the false assumption that all CO2 was replaced each year at 420 ppm. I have no idea of how many ppm of CO2 is produced annually!
METHANE
It seems that every square meter of the Earth is producing methane at some level. Vast amounts are produced underground, there are methates on the seabed and in permafrost, and anything that rots produces methane.
Despite all this methane is almost non-existent in the atmosphere. The NOAA records methane as 1900 parts per BILLION. Rounding it up to 2000 means that in 1 part in 500,000 is methane!
Methane is of course highly flammable so I suspect its time in the atmosphere is short-lived. The idea of spending ANY money in ‘combatting’ methane shows how brain-washed most people are.
CO2
CO2 levels are higher, 420 parts per million according to the NOAA, or about 1 part in 2,400!
CO2 is essential for life on Earth. At 1 part per 5,500 all life on Earth would end apart from some weird bacteria.
Human activity is only responsible for 4% of the annual production of CO2, about 1 part in 60,000. All the trillions spent on ‘saving CO2’ will save a tiny fraction of that.
PROPAGANDA
Despite the above Western politicians are willing to destroy civilisation to ‘fight’ [insert name of disaster here].
All too often it is activists influencing politicians, with scientists, engineers and accountants excluded.
It is easy to see that most ‘green’ initiatives will fail but they still go ahead. When they do fail the ‘solution’ is to do MORE of the same!
Do the US mainstream and social media know what they are doing when they dismiss genuine concerns about the safety of Covid vaccines, particularly mRNA. It maximises the death of Americans, most likely more Democrats than Republicans! Is this what they want?
One claim in this column was over 100 million deaths due to the suppression of the immune system, sometimes called VAIDS.
Also of note is the reduction of the birth rate in many Western countries, I think by around 15%.
One astonishing clip from a few days ago was a woman saying EVERYONE who has had the mRNA vaccine will be dead within 5 years. I do not know who she was or what evidence she had but she said it as a statement of fact. Also, it is credible! As I understand it all previous uses of mRNA has resulted in the deaths of the subjects, ALL of them. Why is the Covid vaccine different?
If the latter claim is correct it will change the world forever. It would destroy the West, particularly the US and Israel. Europe may fare better as a lot of people received the AstraZeneca vaccine. On the plus side it would massively reduce the global requirements for food and energy.
I think the canary in the coal mine will be insurance companies. They are not infinitely wealthy so will need to reduce the current excessive claims. If they refuse to give life or health insurance to anyone who has been vaccinated it will be impossible for the media to ignore!
Russia has been an incredibly reliable supplier of energy to Europe. There were no interruptions during the cold war and after. The only issue I know of is when Ukraine started redirecting European gas for their own use.
In the past few months Europe has frozen hundreds of billions of Russia’s financial assets, imposed dozens of sanctions with the declared aim of destroying Russia, and supplied weapons meant to kill Russians.
Russia is still supplying energy to Europe!
The primary cause of any energy disruption is Europe itself – no blame can be put on Russia.
REPATRIATION
It is only for the last two years that I realised what a Frankenstein country Ukraine is, stitched together from bits of surrounding countries. I did think it would be a good idea if these parts were ceded back to the original countries but did not see how it could be done but things change.
Russia repatriated Crimea, gifted by Khrushcev, and is now repatriating those parts gifted by Stalin.
I have read that Poland and Hungary may repatriate their lost territories. If this happens the I think Russia would have to say that any military installation in these areas will be destroyed without warning.
Ukraine may be left as it was centuries ago.
EU for Ukraine?
– Western media are generally agreed that Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries on the planet
– It is largely controlled by oligarchs and Nazis [and more recently the US]
– I read that it has the nastiest criminals on the planet, which seems plausible
– Zelensky has banned all opposition parties and arrested the leader of the main opposition party
– Zelensky shut down any TV/Radio/Newspaper who were critical
– Ukraine has spent the past 8 years murdering its own citizensIs this REALLY the kind of country the EU wants?
Not sure what Turkey will think if the Ukraine is accepted!
Perhaps those who were vaccinated for COVID should be entered for the Darwin Awards.
They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or becoming sterilized via their own actions.
