Directed By Generals,
Germany, which last year closed all its remaining nuclear power plants – is now seeking to balance the generation and transmission systems with new gas power plants. But these plants need to be ready to be converted to hydrogen at some point between 2035 and 2040, the economy ministry has said.
The country has also decided to accelerate the coal phase-out to 2030, from an earlier planned date of 2038, but Europe’s largest economy reactivated some mothballed coal-fired power plants in the previous two winters after Russian natural gas supply to Germany ceased.
Uniper, which continues to run several coal-fired power plants in Germany, cannot shut these down right now because it needs gas-fired capacity to replace them and ensure system stability. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Germany-Needs-New-Natural-Gas-Capacity-to-Meet-Its-Coal-Phase-Out-Target.html
The country has also decided to accelerate the coal phase-out to 2030, from an earlier planned date of 2038, but Europe’s largest economy reactivated some mothballed coal-fired power plants in the previous two winters after Russian natural gas supply to Germany ceased.
Uniper, which continues to run several coal-fired power plants in Germany, cannot shut these down right now because it needs gas-fired capacity to replace them and ensure system stability. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Germany-Needs-New-Natural-Gas-Capacity-to-Meet-Its-Coal-Phase-Out-Target.html
What is the economic difference between Trump and “Harris” economic policies?
Trump says he’ll pump more oil at lower prices to goose all aspects of the economy, pulling that future-oil into the present, which should work in “the present.
“Harris” does not elucidate, but current elite trajectory is to place more and more tight-spots of economic control through rent-collection into all parts of the economy, with every smart-phone being ideal, once only smartphones can be used to buy groceries and pay bills, and each can be micro-managed algorithmically by global financiers and intelligence agencies in “consortium”. Comply or scrounge dumpsters until you die in winter.
I “believe” in peak-oil, and that it already happened, and I also believe there has been a lot of Arctic oil discovered under Jimmy Carter and capped-off, and that Russia recently discovered a lot of Antarctic oil, but that those resources are to be exploited under a very different global economic regime, which has not yet been “agreed-upon” at the elite level.
Trump threatens to goose the economy against “consensus”, basically in concert with the “enemy team”, from the view of neoliberal globalist finance, which has long extracted blood from western economies faster than they can make it. The “consensus” is to shrink all the consumer-economies and consumer/productive human-herds gradually, boiling those frogs, while telling them it’s all fine and preventing any comments to the contrary.
We can all see the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in this plan, but it keeps the parasitic elites in place on the top of the anemic economic bags of bones, another weakness over time…
The economy which is more robust NOW has a military advantage over a more anemic economy NOW. Russia points this out, as does China. Trump plans to goose the US economy, which can clearly be done. The parasites’ long planning for a gradual step-down of resource-burn will be thwarted.
It’s not a bad concept, but a bad mechanism, secretly killing and starving most people, in order to keep pampering a few sociopaths. It is a dead-end for our species.
What’s a good-mechanism? There’s the catch. We have an apex-predator global economy, managed by eating grazing (farming) herds. “Don’t be the slowest zebra.” But technology can take out billions of zebras over a decade, without even blowing up farms, factories and oil-wells now, a formidable mass-apex-predation paradigm.
Learn to listen to your conscience and follow it in your difficult daily actions and decisions…
That’s it. That’s all I’ve got, except to grow vegetables, ride a bike and be a friend and family member.
You can’t see the second step until you take the first step.
Harris ‘too busy’ to talk to media – adviser, Avoiding the press is reportedly a key strategy of the vice president’s campaign https://swentr.site/news/604443-kamala-harris-avoiding-media/
It's more than this; it's the "Great Reset" WW-3 is the preferred context. An Unprecedented Monetary Destruction Is Coming
..On July 9, his fifth day on the job Keir Starmer flew to Washington for the NATO summit and a meeting with president Biden. On July 16, Starmer’s government published the new “Strategic Defense Review” – a “root and branch” revision of UK’s defence, so that it is “secure at home and strong abroad for decades to come.” Of course, all these ambitious initiatives ultimately depend on the special relationship itself. Without it, Britain would be punching way, way above its weight.
Trump-proofing the “special relationship”
In terms of military power, the UK is pretty much a lightweight with a handicap, so securing the American protection was top priority. Accordingly, the Mutual Defense Agreement (MDA) between the U.S. and Great Britain needed an urgent upgrade. The agreement was last renewed in 2014 and was set to expire on 31 December 2024. The new major upgrade was formulated by the British government in July of this year: it would make the MDA indefinite, turning it into a de-facto treaty. The idea was to Trump-proof the Agreement in case the DNC fails to steal the presidential elections again this November. The treaty also joins the two nations’ nuclear programs.
Something went wrong in Washington
Now, the Prime Minister wouldn't normally travel and meet with his U.S. counterpart just to "discuss" things... In fact, according to British government sources, the decisions had already been made, and Sir Keir brought all the paperwork with him. However, the signing ceremony never took place and neither did the joint press conference. Something went wrong.
The palace coup at the White House wasn’t officially announced and it almost certainly won't be. We will probably only know of these changes with time, by observing the pattern of events. If the U.S. policy really changes course in a substantive way, this would corroborate that the coup did indeed take place. This may seem inconceivable, but it shouldn’t be. Secretary Blinken has been conducting a truly insane* foreign policy, inflicting massive damage to the United States in material, strategic as well as reputational terms. Such conduct would unavoidably provoke disapproval and opposition within the ranks of the American defense and foreign policy establishments. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/was-there-a-palace-coup-at-the-white *Quite "sane" if destruction of 2 strong nations is the objective
Thomas Neubrger, An American Coup? 'No dice, Mr President. No dice on Ukraine and no dice on Gaza. We're in charge now.
‘It’s over for Russia’ – ex-UK PM, Boris Johnson has argued that Russia must be forced to accept defeat, even if doing so costs a trillion dollars
The trillions of dollars accumulated in debt will lead to an unprecedented wave of central bank easing, which will continue to include negative real rates and even direct debt monetization. However, they need an excuse to present themselves as the solution to the problem they created. A recession or a significant slowdown will be the trigger to implement the plan to destroy the purchasing power of currencies. However, this time inflation is already evident and persistent...
How can governments implement currency destruction when citizens are already upset about high prices? First, they need to silence you. Second, eliminate your options to run away from the currency. Thirdly, enforce the expropriation with the motto, “You may have nothing, but you will find happiness.” https://mises.org/mises-wire/unprecedented-monetary-destruction-coming
How can governments implement currency destruction when citizens are already upset about high prices? First, they need to silence you. Second, eliminate your options to run away from the currency. Thirdly, enforce the expropriation with the motto, “You may have nothing, but you will find happiness.” https://mises.org/mises-wire/unprecedented-monetary-destruction-coming
Alex Krainer wonders: Was there a palace coup at the White House? Antony Blinken's foreign policy conduct has been a textbook recipe for a mutiny in the military ranks.
The events have taken a very strange turn in Washington DC this month. Britain's new cabinet has made it a priority to escalate the West's proxy war against Russia and to bring the U.S. and other allies onboard by hook or by crook. Part of the agenda was enabling the Ukrainians to strike at Russia with western supplied long-range precision missiles. This wouldn't be a new thing exactly, but the escalation they are gunning for is quite substantial, involving possibly even nuclear weapons.
The groundwork for this escalation was being prepared for months. In March this year, the Biden administration approved a new "Nuclear Employment Guidance" in preparation to fight and "win" a three-front nuclear war against Russia, China and North Korea. They followed up with plans to deploy long-range nuclear missiles in Germany and Holland. The preparations were being coordinated between the Neocons in the Biden administration, led by the Secretary of State Antony Blinken, NATO and the members of British cabinets, both under (not war) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and under the new (war) PM Keir Starmer.....On July 9, his fifth day on the job Keir Starmer flew to Washington for the NATO summit and a meeting with president Biden. On July 16, Starmer’s government published the new “Strategic Defense Review” – a “root and branch” revision of UK’s defence, so that it is “secure at home and strong abroad for decades to come.” Of course, all these ambitious initiatives ultimately depend on the special relationship itself. Without it, Britain would be punching way, way above its weight.
Trump-proofing the “special relationship”
In terms of military power, the UK is pretty much a lightweight with a handicap, so securing the American protection was top priority. Accordingly, the Mutual Defense Agreement (MDA) between the U.S. and Great Britain needed an urgent upgrade. The agreement was last renewed in 2014 and was set to expire on 31 December 2024. The new major upgrade was formulated by the British government in July of this year: it would make the MDA indefinite, turning it into a de-facto treaty. The idea was to Trump-proof the Agreement in case the DNC fails to steal the presidential elections again this November. The treaty also joins the two nations’ nuclear programs.
..Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), was jubilant about the new Mutual Defense Agreement, seeing it as a diplomatic win for the UK: "It is good news for the UK that it doesn't need to worry about a future US administration using a future renewal [of the MDA] as leverage." How clever! Now we can stir the pot around the world and if things get ugly, the Americans have to come to our rescue. This is a good position from which to manipulate the U.S. into fighting Britain’s (City of London's?) wars of choice...
..On 10 September, US State Secretary Antony Blinken came to London to meet with his British counterpart David Lammy and the day after they both went to visit Kiev together. On the occasion, Blinken and Lammy almost certainly finalized the plan to commit both nations to aiding Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with western-supplied long range precision missiles. Only two days later, the Prime Minister Starmer flew to Washington again to meet with President Biden, ostensibly to “discuss” the events in Ukraine among other things. Something went wrong in Washington
Now, the Prime Minister wouldn't normally travel and meet with his U.S. counterpart just to "discuss" things... In fact, according to British government sources, the decisions had already been made, and Sir Keir brought all the paperwork with him. However, the signing ceremony never took place and neither did the joint press conference. Something went wrong.
It appears that the U.S. military leadership took Vladimir Putin's warning about this escalation seriously...
..."This would mean that NATO, US and the European countries, the United States are at war with Russia. If that is the case, then bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will take appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.” According to some sources, Putin’s warning was reinforced through back-channel communications between the Russian military leadership and their American counterparts who understand that they were being pushed over the edge of total war. In response, it seems that the American military leadership took over the conduct of the US foreign policy, both in terms of military and diplomatic affairs. State Secretary Blinken and his merry band of Neocons appear to have been sidelined...
..The change in leadership could also be felt in the Middle East. General Michael E. Kurilla, the head of U.S. Central Command visited Israel last week (the second time in a week's interval), apparently also to announce a new policy. Allegedly, he informed the Israelis that if they provoke a war against Hezbollah or against Iran, the U.S. will not come to their aid: they're on their own. The palace coup at the White House wasn’t officially announced and it almost certainly won't be. We will probably only know of these changes with time, by observing the pattern of events. If the U.S. policy really changes course in a substantive way, this would corroborate that the coup did indeed take place. This may seem inconceivable, but it shouldn’t be. Secretary Blinken has been conducting a truly insane* foreign policy, inflicting massive damage to the United States in material, strategic as well as reputational terms. Such conduct would unavoidably provoke disapproval and opposition within the ranks of the American defense and foreign policy establishments. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/was-there-a-palace-coup-at-the-white *Quite "sane" if destruction of 2 strong nations is the objective
Napolitano: No dice. You're talking about no dice on the long range missiles reaching deep into Russia, even though Tony Blinkin had intimated all week in Kyiv with his British counterpart that this was happening. And Sir Keir Stormer, the British Prime Minister, had every reason to believe as he’s flying across the Atlantic that Joe Biden’s answer would be yes.
Wilkerson: He was embarrassed. He was embarrassed by the fact — he was pulling out his maps with target data and Biden told him, “Don’t even pull them out. We’re not going to talk about that.”
I’ve been told, again by fairly reliable sources, that Blinkin and Sullivan — Blinkin primarily, but Sullivan too — have been sidetracked, and what’s happened is the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war.
And so they’re now in charge.
I have to change my evaluation of Secretary Austin if that’s the case, because it means he listened finally to the people in the bowels of the Pentagon who know the truth, and he’s reacting to that, and he’s told the President Biden that, and to Biden’s credit, even though he was furious, he finally took that advice.
Wilkerson: He was embarrassed. He was embarrassed by the fact — he was pulling out his maps with target data and Biden told him, “Don’t even pull them out. We’re not going to talk about that.”
I’ve been told, again by fairly reliable sources, that Blinkin and Sullivan — Blinkin primarily, but Sullivan too — have been sidetracked, and what’s happened is the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war.
And so they’re now in charge.
I have to change my evaluation of Secretary Austin if that’s the case, because it means he listened finally to the people in the bowels of the Pentagon who know the truth, and he’s reacting to that, and he’s told the President Biden that, and to Biden’s credit, even though he was furious, he finally took that advice.
Napolitano: Colonel, you once ran the State Department [as Secretary Colin Powell’s chief of staff under George Bush]. How does the Defense Department engage in diplomacy?
Wilkerson: They engage in diplomacy every day. Every day. There are four-stars in the various syncdoms, the regions that they control, the AORs [Areas of Responsibility] [who] are the true U.S. diplomats. And some of them are very good at it. I saw some of them. I worked with some of them who are very good at it, better than any Secretary of State.
But it shouldn’t be that way. That’s a parenthetical remark. We shouldn’t have the military leading diplomacy. But we often do. https://neuburger.substack.com/p/an-american-coup
Wilkerson: They engage in diplomacy every day. Every day. There are four-stars in the various syncdoms, the regions that they control, the AORs [Areas of Responsibility] [who] are the true U.S. diplomats. And some of them are very good at it. I saw some of them. I worked with some of them who are very good at it, better than any Secretary of State.
But it shouldn’t be that way. That’s a parenthetical remark. We shouldn’t have the military leading diplomacy. But we often do. https://neuburger.substack.com/p/an-american-coup
Russia must understand that “it’s over,” and that Ukraine will not concede any territory for peace, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has argued. For this goal to be achieved, however, Kiev will need long-range weapons, NATO membership, and half a trillion dollars, Johnson added.
In an op-ed published in The Spectator on Saturday, Johnson argued that Ukrainian forces still have the “ability to win,” if only the West would cave to every single one of Kiev’s demands. These include, he wrote, permission to strike deep inside Russian territory with Storm Shadow and ATACMS missiles, and immediate invitation to NATO with Article 5 security guarantees, and “half a trillion dollars… or even a trillion.” https://swentr.site/russia/604441-boris-johnson-over-russia/
Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents
In an op-ed published in The Spectator on Saturday, Johnson argued that Ukrainian forces still have the “ability to win,” if only the West would cave to every single one of Kiev’s demands. These include, he wrote, permission to strike deep inside Russian territory with Storm Shadow and ATACMS missiles, and immediate invitation to NATO with Article 5 security guarantees, and “half a trillion dollars… or even a trillion.” https://swentr.site/russia/604441-boris-johnson-over-russia/
Israel Unleashes Hell On South Lebanon With Giant Mystery Bomb As War Escalates
Al Jazeera correspondents have confirmed that "Israel’s military launched 400 attacks on Lebanon on Saturday and Hezbollah fired rockets at the Ramat David base near the city of Haifa, in their largest exchange of fire since the war on Gaza began."
Another indicator of the escalation is that Israel is apparently beginning use much bigger bombs compared to much of the past nearly year of internecine fighting. The below widely circulating footage shows a large flash and skyscraper-size fireball, resulting in some viewers speculating it was likely a heavy bunker-buster bomb, or possibly even a tactical nuke of some sort. Whatever it was, there's never been anything like it used on Lebanon (that we know about). https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/idf-says-180-targets-eliminated-southern-lebanon-us-lauds-good-outcome-beirut-strike
Another indicator of the escalation is that Israel is apparently beginning use much bigger bombs compared to much of the past nearly year of internecine fighting. The below widely circulating footage shows a large flash and skyscraper-size fireball, resulting in some viewers speculating it was likely a heavy bunker-buster bomb, or possibly even a tactical nuke of some sort. Whatever it was, there's never been anything like it used on Lebanon (that we know about). https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/idf-says-180-targets-eliminated-southern-lebanon-us-lauds-good-outcome-beirut-strike
Terrorist... Attack on communication devices in Lebanon violates international law, could be war crime: UN human rights chief https://www.arabnews.com/node/2572196/middle-east
Simplicius, Ukraine Allies Squeezed by Weapons Drought as Clock Ticks
As The Financial Times put it, Stoltenberg made ‘blunt remarks’ as he condemned the build-up of competences, personnel and budgets for EU command structures and planned rapid response force, fearing that this will divert resources from NATO.
See “NATO chief warns EU against setting up ‘competing’ force” by Henry Foy in yesterday’s FT.
If this is what Stoltenberg is saying in public, you can well imagine that the NATO-EU fight for the lead role in Europe’s defense is running at a fever pitch behind closed doors. It is a contest that has been gathering force for a good many months now...
Ryan Routh, The Man Who Tried to Assassinate Donald Trump, Wrote a Book That Sounds Like it Was Written by A “CIA Asset”? https://www.globalresearch.ca/ryan-routh-book-sounds-written-cia/5868342
For-Profit US Healthcare System—Once Again—Ranks Dead Last Among Its Peers https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-healthcare-system
WaPo journalists cited a new study about Earth's global surface temperatures over the last 485 million years. In 2023, Earth's average temperature reached 58.96 F (14.98 C), well below the average 96.8 degrees F (36 degrees Celsius) the study showed around 100 million years ago. The trend shows Earth's temperatures have been sliding for 50 million years. https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/msm-journos-inadvertently-reveal-shocking-truth-about-global-warming
US to delay military aid to Ukraine – CNN The Pentagon doesn’t have enough weapons in stock to keep up with Kiev’s demands, a report says https://swentr.site/news/604406-us-upcoming-aid-shortages-cnn/
What long range weapons were used? Cruise missiles? Whose? Ukraine Scores More Large Hits On Russian Ammo Storage Depots https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-scores-more-large-hits-russian-ammo-storage-depots
Ukraine’s fate continues to be hinged on ostensibly allowing “deep strikes” in order to lance the war’s final ‘taboo’ in involving NATO directly against Russia...
Europe’s authoritarian, unelected ruler, Ursula von der Leyen, in a growing dispute with NATO leadership
In his farewell event on Thursday hosted by the German Marshal Fund in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg came as close to denouncing European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen as you can in Euro-speak before journalists whom he knew would be weighing his every word...Zelensky will give the US his “victory plan” in order to receive a refusal and then begin negotiations with Russia.
This is the opinion of the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuri Lutsenko, which is why Kyiv constantly places responsibility for the situation at the front on its allies.
“The entire propaganda machine of the President’s Office constantly hammers into the heads of Ukrainians that we have problems only because the US does not want to give us permission for long-range missiles JASSM, ATACMS, Storm Shadow / Scalp,” writes Lutsenko.
"But this is a lie that will (not) lead to victory. At least because the Russian Air Transport Agency has already gone beyond the ATACMS coverage area. Therefore, it will not stop attacks, KABs, and ballistics."
Lutsenko believes that Zelensky is acting according to the following plan:
1. We submit to the US a new mega-list of demands for weapons and money.
2. We receive polite doubts that this will change the course of the war and lead us to the borders of 1991.
3. We declare that we have been abandoned and we have no other choice but to return to the Peace Forums with the participation of Russia.
4. During the negotiations we receive demands from Putin in the style of Istanbul.
5. We declare that this is the subject of a referendum and that a ceasefire is needed for this.
6. We sign a ceasefire.
7. We take the pose of the president of the world and hold presidential elections. Preferably - without lifting martial law, so that democracy does not interfere, and the TCC controls the polling stations.
Lutsenko called it a “cynical show” that is “easily read by both Ukrainian political leaders and our allies.”
This is the opinion of the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuri Lutsenko, which is why Kyiv constantly places responsibility for the situation at the front on its allies.
“The entire propaganda machine of the President’s Office constantly hammers into the heads of Ukrainians that we have problems only because the US does not want to give us permission for long-range missiles JASSM, ATACMS, Storm Shadow / Scalp,” writes Lutsenko.
"But this is a lie that will (not) lead to victory. At least because the Russian Air Transport Agency has already gone beyond the ATACMS coverage area. Therefore, it will not stop attacks, KABs, and ballistics."
Lutsenko believes that Zelensky is acting according to the following plan:
1. We submit to the US a new mega-list of demands for weapons and money.
2. We receive polite doubts that this will change the course of the war and lead us to the borders of 1991.
3. We declare that we have been abandoned and we have no other choice but to return to the Peace Forums with the participation of Russia.
4. During the negotiations we receive demands from Putin in the style of Istanbul.
5. We declare that this is the subject of a referendum and that a ceasefire is needed for this.
6. We sign a ceasefire.
7. We take the pose of the president of the world and hold presidential elections. Preferably - without lifting martial law, so that democracy does not interfere, and the TCC controls the polling stations.
Lutsenko called it a “cynical show” that is “easily read by both Ukrainian political leaders and our allies.”
As The Financial Times put it, Stoltenberg made ‘blunt remarks’ as he condemned the build-up of competences, personnel and budgets for EU command structures and planned rapid response force, fearing that this will divert resources from NATO.
See “NATO chief warns EU against setting up ‘competing’ force” by Henry Foy in yesterday’s FT.
If this is what Stoltenberg is saying in public, you can well imagine that the NATO-EU fight for the lead role in Europe’s defense is running at a fever pitch behind closed doors. It is a contest that has been gathering force for a good many months now...
..Foy’s article on von der Leyen is generally complimentary, calling out that ‘she’s the hardest working’ person in the EU institutions. He acknowledges that critics say she ‘routinely overstretches her powers and bypasses proper due process.’ But he grants her that in the spirit of ‘you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.’ So he concludes what is supposed to be a well-rounded appreciation of von der Leyen, saying that ‘admirers, including many EU leaders, revere her ability to get things done by cutting through the byzantine layers of European bureaucracy.’ It is entirely fitting that Foy avoids calling this approach what it might otherwise be called: authoritarian.
What is missing from this piece of seemingly balanced journalism from the FT is what we opened this essay with: von der Leyen’s ongoing duplication of NATO functions. This is self-aggrandizing as it expands her powers. It is also changing the European Union from a peace project, as it was originally conceived, into a war project. In this regard, all the instruments that von der Leyen has deployed to ensure her degree of control over the Commission that Foy describes also infuse the Commission and the EU Institutions more generally with the war agenda of the New Europe (as Donald Rumsfeld described the former Warsaw Pact countries) that is directed against Russia. Here we find the unifying mission of both EU and NATO institutions.
..For those of us who have been around for a while and knew the EU institutions when they were erected by men of great stature like Jacques Delors, it is painful to see how the project has been reduced to a War Project by people of much lower moral standing and vision for the future. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/09/21/europes-authoritarian-unelected-ruler-ursula-von-der-leyen-in-a-growing-dispute-with-nato-leadership/
One of the obvious ways that von der Leyen intends to control the EU is through her closest coordination with the commissioners drawn from the Baltic States and extending into the other member states of Eastern Europe. These commissioners are all, by definition, much easier for the Commission president to dominate than are commissioners put up by the large member states like France, Italy and Germany. They have been given heavy responsibility portfolios out of all proportion to the political, economic, demographic weight of the countries they represent. This is why the utterly shallow prime minister of Estonia, which has a population of 1.3 million, was chosen by von der Leyen to head the key portfolio of foreign relations as the EU’’s spokesperson to the world...
..Of course, Kaja Kallas, who herself had been a contender to succeed Stoltenberg at NATO, was and is one of the most aggressive Russophobes in the EU. Several weeks ago, the lady said that the objective of the EU should be “to bring Russia to its knees” by inflicting a humiliating defeat on the Kremlin in its war on Ukraine.....For those of us who have been around for a while and knew the EU institutions when they were erected by men of great stature like Jacques Delors, it is painful to see how the project has been reduced to a War Project by people of much lower moral standing and vision for the future. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/09/21/europes-authoritarian-unelected-ruler-ursula-von-der-leyen-in-a-growing-dispute-with-nato-leadership/
How about resuming Russian natural gas imports next year, instead? EU Leadership Urges Europe To Be Ready To Fight Russia In 6-8 Years https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eu-leadership-urges-europe-be-ready-fight-russia-6-8-years
Estonia signals readiness to preemptively strike Russia to defend NATO
During an interview with the Estonian public broadcaster ERR, Estonian General Vahur Karus has stated that Estonia is ready to strike Russian territory if Moscow shows signs of preparing for an attack on NATO. "Our capability to neutralize the enemy on its own territory is crucial," General Karus emphasized, pointing to a new strategy where waiting to be attacked first is no longer an option. https://www.uawire.org/estonia-signals-readiness-to-preemptively-strike-russia-to-defend-nato#
Switzerland to expel hundreds of Russian scientists – The CERN research center will end cooperation with Moscow on December 1, the journal Nature has reported https://swentr.site/news/604402-switzerland-expel-russian-scientists/
EU to raise €35 billion loan for Ukraine using Russia's frozen assets, von der Leyen says https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/20/eu-to-raise-35-billion-loan-for-ukraine-using-russias-frozen-assets-von-der-leyen-says
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen is traveling to war-ravaged Ukraine on Friday with the promise of 160 million euros ($180 million) in fresh energy funds to get the nation through the winter. Von der Leyen told reporters that 100 million euros ($112 million) of the funds would come the proceeds of the Russian assets held in the EU because of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. “It is only right that Russia pays for the destruction it caused,” she said. https://apnews.com/article/eu-russia-ukraine-energy-war-2b9ef02f93993c9e2f4acf5bed079aba
Charges filed against UC Irvine students and professors who took part in protests The Orange County District Attorney’s office announced misdemeanor charges Wednesday against 10 people, including a professor and lecturer. They have been charged with failing to follow dispersal orders at UC Irvine when police attempted to clear a student encampment calling for an end to Israel’s war in Gaza.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said that the Special Prosecutions Unit spent months reviewing evidence before moving forward with charges.
“The right to peaceful assembly is a constitutional right and we encourage protestors to exercise their right to peaceful assembly on any issue,” Spitzer said when he announced the charges. “However, criminal activity which transcends peaceful assembly will not be tolerated." https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/charges-filed-against-uc-irvine-students-and-professors-who-took-part-in-protests
Unlike the bloc politics of the hegemonic system that relies on dividing the world into dependent allies versus weakened adversaries, BRICS uses economic connectivity to mitigate and resolve political disputes. Thus, the members include China and India, Saudi Arabia and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia. After the Second World War, the Europeans attempted to follow the same model of seeking security with other member by putting Germany and France in the same club. These days are long gone, as security is now security against non-members that has converted the European peace project into an aggressive peacetime alliance. When the US abandons the goal of defeating China, Russia and other adversaries, the BRICS club could also be used to accommodate Western powers into the multipolar international economic architecture. https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/brics-develops-a-multipolar-economic
Eugyppius, "Help! My child is becoming right wing!": Leading Berlin newspaper provides "tips for democratic parents" who are forced to deal with "undemocratic children" https://www.eugyppius.com/p/help-my-child-is-becoming-right-wing
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said that the Special Prosecutions Unit spent months reviewing evidence before moving forward with charges.
“The right to peaceful assembly is a constitutional right and we encourage protestors to exercise their right to peaceful assembly on any issue,” Spitzer said when he announced the charges. “However, criminal activity which transcends peaceful assembly will not be tolerated." https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/charges-filed-against-uc-irvine-students-and-professors-who-took-part-in-protests
Glenn Diesen, BRICS Develops a Multipolar Economic Architecture, The Meeting in Kazan Will Respond to the West's Economic Suicide
Jim Kunstler calls it "insane", like Alex Krainer did. Mad to the Max
“I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.” — Hillary Clinton If anything like civil war ignites in this country, the sides will not be the political Red and the Blue but the sane and the insane. Now it happens, unfortunately, that the insane are driving the engine of government. They have been at war with the people of this land for years, depriving them of livelihoods, stuffing them into prison, breaking the social contract, wrecking the country’s relations with the rest of the world, and belaboring the peoples’ minds with one insulting absurdity after another.
They comprise a bizarre coalition of the permanent bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, and the news media. The permanent bureaucracy includes its own machine for making war on citizens: the intel blob, whose tentacles reach into other agencies: Homeland Security, the State Department, the so-called Justice Department, the Pentagon, the myriad Public Health offices, and the shadowy clique that stands-in for a disabled president in the White House.
You can tell they are insane because they are driven by a single motivation: to remain in power for no other purpose than to escape responsibility for their many crimes against the people. https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/mad-to-the-max
They comprise a bizarre coalition of the permanent bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, and the news media. The permanent bureaucracy includes its own machine for making war on citizens: the intel blob, whose tentacles reach into other agencies: Homeland Security, the State Department, the so-called Justice Department, the Pentagon, the myriad Public Health offices, and the shadowy clique that stands-in for a disabled president in the White House.
You can tell they are insane because they are driven by a single motivation: to remain in power for no other purpose than to escape responsibility for their many crimes against the people. https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/mad-to-the-max
Meryl Nass MD, Entire state of Georgia ordered to hand count PAPER BALLOTS on election day!
A big step toward a clean election. NYT unhappy. There would be machine ballots and paper ballots. Let's hope the twain shall meet. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/entire-state-of-georgia-ordered-toVery effective cost-containment, the repetitive and persistent threat of non-payment for services. Therapy patients stop treatment after ‘pre-payment reviews’ swell https://clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2024/09/therapy-patients-stop-treatment-after-pre-payment-reviews-swell/
Matt Stoller, Up to a Quarter of Rental Inflation Is Due to Price-Fixing
From 2020-2024, rent prices spiked by a third. How much of that is due to collusion by corporate landlords and a software coordinator? And where is the Fed? And that brings me back to the Antitrust Division’s lawsuit against RealPage. Is this case more than an (alleged) price-fixing conspiracy? Could it point to a broader problem in the economy?
Let’s start with what this firm actually did. RealPage allegedly encouraged excess rental prices in a number of ways. First, it collected sensitive information about the market and let its clients know what everyone else was charging. Second, it explicitly encouraged rent hikes through default settings in its software, and by having its RealPage “pricing advisors” harass employees of clients until they raised rents. As one unnamed landlord put it, “I always liked this product because your algorithm uses proprietary data from other subscribers to suggest rents and term. That’s classic price fixing." And finally, it hosted in-person meetings where its clients would talk with one another about raising prices. https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/up-to-a-quarter-of-rental-inflation
Let’s start with what this firm actually did. RealPage allegedly encouraged excess rental prices in a number of ways. First, it collected sensitive information about the market and let its clients know what everyone else was charging. Second, it explicitly encouraged rent hikes through default settings in its software, and by having its RealPage “pricing advisors” harass employees of clients until they raised rents. As one unnamed landlord put it, “I always liked this product because your algorithm uses proprietary data from other subscribers to suggest rents and term. That’s classic price fixing." And finally, it hosted in-person meetings where its clients would talk with one another about raising prices. https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/up-to-a-quarter-of-rental-inflation
Net-zero emission goals went out the window with AI. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/using-gpt-4-to-generate-100-words-consumes-up-to-3-bottles-of-water-ai-data-centers-also-raise-power-and-water-bills-for-nearby-residents
Peter McCullough MD, Manuscript: Banoun, Analysis of Beyfortus® (Nirsevimab) Immunization Campaign: Effectiveness, Biases, and ADE Risks in RSV Prevention
Acute RSV Infection and Death after Monoclonal Antibody Infusion Suggest Product Backfires in Some Babies Due to Antibody-Dependent Enhancement https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-manuscript-banoun-analysisBrowse presentation topic summaries and biographies of presenters: Attack on Food and Farmers and How To Fight Back https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/browse-all/attack-on-food-and-farmers-and-how-to-fight-back-collection/
Biological Intelligence (pictured with peppers, blinking in morning sun, after finishing lawn-mowing)
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